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Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda on Tuesday pressed for a positive interface of the administration with the people of the State, warning his listeners that “people are fast losing faith in the administration in their day-to-day lives and middlemen are profiting from public welfare schemes.”
Munda inaugurated the e-certificate, Jharkhand State Edusat and Automatic Weather Station Network programmes, a significant addition to the e-governance scheme of the State Government.
At the initial level, 60 blocks of Jharkhand have been brought within AWSN essentially meant to provide weather related information through satellites. It will come as a great help for the farmers of Jharkhand as they will get desired weather information for cultivation within their block headquarters. Munda said the move was meant as a “gift to the State’s farmers”.
“The e-certificate programme will make the process of getting certificates like birth, death and caste hassle-free,” the Chief Minister said. On Monday, the programme was launched in 32 panchayats of Kanke block of Ranchi district.
Munda pledged to cover another 4,500 panchayats under the e-certificate programme in a phased manner by September-end. In areas like procuring documents and certificates where people have day-to-day dealings with the administration, Munda admitted that the administration has lost the faith of the people.
“It is a fact that the people have lost faith in the administration. They face problems and hurdles in getting work done. Middlemen are profiting from the public welfare programme. We need to address this. We need to curb corruption,” Munda said in his inaugural speech.
Munda used key adjectives to highlight the Government’s initiatives to let information flow down to the panchayat level. “Except sensitive issues, information related to the administrative functioning of the Government, its various departments and the district administration must flow down to the panchayat level through the digital medium. The new system introduced will be welcomed by the people,” he said.
Making it a point that the administration must take up the people’s causes on an urgent basis and deliver within a time frame, he said that all others departments of the Government must act to switch over to digital space for greater transparency.
The Jharkhand State Edusat Programme initially covered eight districts of the State. It is an ambitious scheme to accelerate spread of school education and literacy. Munda stole moments to communicate with some of the students of the schools of Dumka, Dhanbad and Gumla through the Satellite Interactive Terminal. Eager students enquired about his favourite teachers, friends and subjects during his school days.
While speaking to the children, the CM shared some lighter moments. A student in Dhanbad complained about the lack of library and playground facilities in his school. Munda assured him that he will personally look into the matter.
Prodding the administration and establishment to play a proactive role, Munda tasked bureaucrats to implement schemes in all of Jharkhand in less than two months. “Things are not over with the inauguration… the pace of growth must be sustained,” he said.
Munda said nothing new and neither e-governance nor the critical strides regarding digital space is his brainchild. But he deserves credit for implementing these programmes against an unwilling establishment and a bureaucracy sitting on the proposal since 2005-06.
Munda inaugurated the e-certificate, Jharkhand State Edusat and Automatic Weather Station Network programmes, a significant addition to the e-governance scheme of the State Government.
At the initial level, 60 blocks of Jharkhand have been brought within AWSN essentially meant to provide weather related information through satellites. It will come as a great help for the farmers of Jharkhand as they will get desired weather information for cultivation within their block headquarters. Munda said the move was meant as a “gift to the State’s farmers”.
“The e-certificate programme will make the process of getting certificates like birth, death and caste hassle-free,” the Chief Minister said. On Monday, the programme was launched in 32 panchayats of Kanke block of Ranchi district.
Munda pledged to cover another 4,500 panchayats under the e-certificate programme in a phased manner by September-end. In areas like procuring documents and certificates where people have day-to-day dealings with the administration, Munda admitted that the administration has lost the faith of the people.
“It is a fact that the people have lost faith in the administration. They face problems and hurdles in getting work done. Middlemen are profiting from the public welfare programme. We need to address this. We need to curb corruption,” Munda said in his inaugural speech.
Munda used key adjectives to highlight the Government’s initiatives to let information flow down to the panchayat level. “Except sensitive issues, information related to the administrative functioning of the Government, its various departments and the district administration must flow down to the panchayat level through the digital medium. The new system introduced will be welcomed by the people,” he said.
Making it a point that the administration must take up the people’s causes on an urgent basis and deliver within a time frame, he said that all others departments of the Government must act to switch over to digital space for greater transparency.
The Jharkhand State Edusat Programme initially covered eight districts of the State. It is an ambitious scheme to accelerate spread of school education and literacy. Munda stole moments to communicate with some of the students of the schools of Dumka, Dhanbad and Gumla through the Satellite Interactive Terminal. Eager students enquired about his favourite teachers, friends and subjects during his school days.
While speaking to the children, the CM shared some lighter moments. A student in Dhanbad complained about the lack of library and playground facilities in his school. Munda assured him that he will personally look into the matter.
Prodding the administration and establishment to play a proactive role, Munda tasked bureaucrats to implement schemes in all of Jharkhand in less than two months. “Things are not over with the inauguration… the pace of growth must be sustained,” he said.
Munda said nothing new and neither e-governance nor the critical strides regarding digital space is his brainchild. But he deserves credit for implementing these programmes against an unwilling establishment and a bureaucracy sitting on the proposal since 2005-06.
