The brand new Mahayuti authorities has vowed to ship better transparency, improved e-governance, and higher coordination with the central authorities for funding, particularly for its welfare schemes, all a part of an formidable ‘100-day transformation programme’ for the state.
Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis rolled out the programme at his first assembly with bureaucrats after taking cost on Thursday.
On the assembly, attended by 35 bureaucrats who head key departments, Fadnavis stated he would maintain them personally accountable for their respective departments’ failure to ship on these objectives.
He additionally stated the federal government would arrange two warfare rooms, one for infrastructure tasks and the opposite for flagship programmes.
Underlining that welfare schemes have been the necessity of the hour, Fadnavis stated real-time monitoring with the central authorities for extra funding was an vital strategy to scale back the monetary burden on the state exchequer, in accordance with officers who attended the assembly.
The chief minister stated the brand new authorities would push for e-governance and technology-enabled companies, thus lowering footfalls in Mantralaya and authorities workplaces. He instructed the administration to nominate a committee of retired bureaucrats to border the steps wanted to attain this aim.
To advertise transparency, Fadnavis has directed bureaucrats to make data regarding authorities departments accessible to the folks. As well as, authorities web sites have to be made RTI-friendly, to ease the method of submitting purposes beneath the Proper to Info Act, 2005.
Authorities portals would even be upgraded to ship correct and well timed data.
“A grievance-redressal system on the traces of the one operated by the PMO is the mantra of his transformation programme,” stated a senior authorities official.
Fadnavis has set a timeline for rolling out the motion plan: The warfare rooms can be arrange by January 26; citizen-centric companies inside 60 days; a state-centre coordination mechanism inside 30 days; and administrative reforms inside 90 days. Among the many long-term measures, expertise integration has been allotted 120 days.
Fadnavis had stated on Thursday throughout his swearing-in that the 2 and half years of the primary Mahayuti authorities have been the “T20£ and “50-overs matches.”
“The Mahayuti 2.0 authorities has a Check match to play,” he remarked. He meant the paperwork should tread cautiously on the trail of improvement and monetary prudence, in accordance with bureaucrats.
The legislation and judiciary division has been requested to safe speedy trials and outcomes in litigation that has halted promotions and recruitment in authorities jobs.
Fadnavis has additionally directed the administration to expedite the coaching of 1.5 lakh newly recruited authorities workers to ship better effectivity in companies.
Directing the income division to make efficient use of blockchain for record-keeping, Fadnavis directed the administration to organise hackathons and convey collectively innovators, entrepreneurs and policymakers to develop revolutionary options.
The secretaries of assorted departments have additionally been requested to discover the organising of on-line portals and cellular purposes to ship companies and scale back turnaround time.
Fadnavis has underlined that authorities companies have to be made extra accessible to residents. Whereas the earlier Eknath Shinde authorities had launched a programme referred to as ‘Authorities at Your Doorstep’, Fadnavis plans to provoke Janata Darbars and Lokshahi Din in varied authorities workplaces.
(With inputs from Yogesh Naik)
