UT mulls screening process revamp for public session

Sources in the UT Administration say that the UT Administrator was not too pleased with the applications which were put up for hearing on October 1.

Two days after a couple was allegedly manhandled by the security staff outside the public hearing session of the UT Administrator Shivraj V Patil causing considerable embarrassment to the UT top brass,the screening committee,which is entrusted with the responsibility of scrutinising the applicants and their complaints before they are cleared for a face-to-face with the administrator,is under scanner.

Sources in the UT Administration say that the UT Administrator was not too pleased with the applications which were put up for hearing on October 1. Insiders in the UT Administration say that the officials were being pulled up for allowing petty complaints to reach the public hearing session despite there being a proper system of redressing these at the level of respective department.

The complaints which were put up on October 1 included grievances against the menace of stray dogs and cattle,a marital discord between a newly wedded couple,inaction by the police in a child abduction case and long standing demand of promotion of UT cadre teachers.

Sources in the UT Administration say that following the episode that took place on Monday,the UT Administration is mulling over a complete revamp in the system of screening of complaints for the public hearing session.

As procedure,each applicant has to send in his complaint to the office of the director,(Information Technology),following which the complainant is called for a personal interview. After the director IT is satisfied,the complaint is sent to the IT department. Following this,the complainant gets a call to be present in the UT Secretariat on a given day and is issued a token number.

It was on Monday that Om Parkash and his wife who had come with a complaint against police inaction in their 12-year-old son’s kidnapping case four months back were allegedly pushed out of the public hearing session by the security staff.

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