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Think out of the box, KCR tells Collectors
Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday called upon the bureaucrats to work as a team and pull down the artificial walls of administration and focus attention on delivering services. Inaugurating the two-day Collectors\' conference, Rao reminded the senior officials that though they work in different departments it was only for administrative convenience. The government, he said, was one umbrella organisation and has to work in unison.
Hyderabad: Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao on Friday called upon the bureaucrats to work as a team and pull down the artificial walls of administration and focus attention on delivering services. Inaugurating the two-day Collectors' conference, Rao reminded the senior officials that though they work in different departments it was only for administrative convenience. The government, he said, was one umbrella organisation and has to work in unison.
The departmentalisation isolates people and makes them feel that government was inaccessible. This was major reason for people coming in conflict with the Government, he said and advised them to involve people in participatory development.Listing out the priorities of the Government, the Chief Minister asked Collectors to adopt "out of the box" methods in land acquisition for industrial development. They must stabilise land bank which was crucial for investments.
Telangana is a newly-created state and people are eagerly looking up to the TRS government to lead them onto development path, he said. The Chief Minister pointed out that his government has increased the budget for welfare schemes to Rs 27,000 crore (for ten districts alone) as against the Rs 8,000 crore allotted in the undivided Andhra Pradesh. Rao sought to impress upon the Collectors about the need to change the mindset of people about government in general.
Due to ineffective functioning by our predecessors, the general feeling among public is that protests and fights are the only means to make government listen, he lamented. Elaborate discussions were held on municipal administration and urban development, rural water supply (drinking water grid), Swacch Bharat and Swacch Telangana, Haritha Haaram, illicit distillation, women safety and crime against women, land management and agriculture and horticulture.
He asked them to appoint Special Tahsildars in cities with excess population. Dumping yards, burial grounds, graveyards, rythu bazars, non-veg and fish markets and parks should be constructed in Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities. Grameen Banks, which migrated to urban areas, should be relocated to villages. Aasara pensions should be given to only eligible persons. Fake ration cards should be removed. Warangal, Karimnagar, Khammam, Nizamabad and Ramagundam to have new dumping yards. Every house should be equipped with toilet. Government to give Rs 12,000 for construction of toilets in houses of poor and Rs 65,000 for building toilets for public use.
