Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the officials to focus on filling vacancies in Village/ Ward Secretariats.
During the review meeting held at the camp office at Amaravati on Thursday, he instructed the officials to focus on procuring required technical equipment for providing Aadhar services in Village / Ward Secretariats and said to take steps to make Aadhaar services fully available in them by May.
CM Jagan directed the officials to focus on making necessary arrangements for felicitating volunteers for their best services and providing them financial incentives programme on the occasion of Ugadi festival and has added to provide uniforms to all the staff of Village/ Ward Secretariats by then.
The Chief Minister instructed the officials to get the reports on the condition of computers and other hardware equipment from Village/ Ward Secretariats every month and make sure all the hardware equipment is in the best condition.
“The staff of Village / Ward Secretariats should work with full efficiency and directed the officials to create awareness among them in this regard and added to ensure stipulated SOPs are strictly implemented. The process of recognising Village/ Ward Secretariat staff as regular employees should be completed soon. A system should be in place to lodge a complaint immediately if anyone asks for a bribe to provide services and also to record the action taken,” he said.
He added that the Citizen Outreach Programme is very important and should be implemented effectively.
Panchayat Raj Minister Peddireddy Ramachandra Reddy, Municipal Administration, and Urban Development Minister Botsa Satyanarayana Chief Secretary Dr Sameer Sharma, Municipal Administration and Urban Development Special Chief Secretary Y Srilakshmi, Housing Principal Secretary Ajay Jain, CM Advisor ( Village / Ward Secretariats) R Dhanunjay Reddy, GSWS Special Secretary Rahul Pandey, VSWS Commissioner, and Director Shan Mohan, Civil Supplies Commissioner Girija Shankar, SERP CEO Imtiyaz and other officials were present at the meeting.
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