VIJAYAWADA: Chief minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy has asked the MLAs to visit the village and ward secretariats from October.
The move is to motivate the staff to serve people better, he said. He also told the district collectors and the SPs to have regular visit to the village secretariats and improve the quality of work.
The chief minister said he would start visiting the village and ward secretariats from December. He wanted the district collectors, officials and legislators to make sure that the secretariats system is streamlined and people get quality services.
The chief minister held a video conference with the district collectors, SPs and other officials from his Tadepalli camp office on Wednesday. He told them to make the secretariats implementing point for majority of the government services. He also told them to begin the preparatory work for the Jagananna Sampoorna Gruha Hakku Padhakam, which would be launched in December. The scheme is to release the house sites and houses of 67 lakh beneficiaries which were mortgaged with AP Housing Finance Corporation.
Jagan said people have pledged their houses and house sites with the housing corporation between 1983 and 2011 and they would all be released with a fixed one-time payment. Stating that the scheme implementation is litmus test for the government, he cautioned the collectors and other officials to work hard failing which he would not hesitate to take action.
The CM further told the officials to ensure that these secretariats are corruption-free centres. “The secretariat should be the place where there is no corruption and no discrimination.” He wanted the officials to understand that the secretariats should reflect the governance and they should speak for the government.
