Srinagar, Aug 08 (KNS): In a stern message to government officials refusing to mend their ways despite repeated complaints, the Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti has asked administrative secretaries to carry out assessment of such employees and recommend action against them.
Official sources told KNS that Mehbooba directed the administrative secretaries that officials who do not improve their performance despite repeated complaints should be sacked.
Sources said that the Chief Minister has asked the assessment of employees who are habitual of corruption and other unlawful activities. “CM also asked the ministers to recommend action against erring officials,” sources said.
Sources added that the CM also asked all government departments, which have to extensively deal with the public, to set up a grievance-monitoring mechanism. “CM also laid thrust on quicker delivery of the government's developmental agenda as she also embarked on a comprehensive review of the ongoing schemes,” sources said.
Sources also said that the CM urged all ministers, to set up a system for top-level monitoring of grievances immediately.Click Here To Follow Our WhatsApp ChannelSources said that though the CM was informed that the government had already been initiating steps to warn errant officials and installed CCTV cameras to keep tab on them, the CM observed that action must be taken against such officials.
Sources said Mehbooba has also asked top bureaucrats to work together and resolve prickly issues quickly and get out of the government way of doing business by passing files from one to another.
It is to mention here that the anti-graft bodies who have been set up to combat the increasing corruption in Jammu and Kashmir, have failed to make perceptible change to ensure transparency in governance in the State.
Although the successive governments prior to elections had promised to strengthening the anti-corruption bodies in the State, however, all these institutions have failed to make noticeable change on the ground as they have either remained headless or defunct for months or facing shortage of manpower. (KNS)