CM talks tough,wants babus to clear pending files in a week

The CM said officers take things for granted because he speaks nicely. “I will cite an incident where I asked an officer to complete a project in five months and he kept sitting on it. Then when I asked him to finally do it in a day,he gave me a two-page report on how the work cannot be taken up. Later,I spoke to the officer personally over the phone and asked him if it has happened because I speak nicely and do not humiliate officers. The job was done in the next two days,” the CM said during his address at Udhyami Mahasammelan.

He said that in most of the cases,IAS officers tell him that noting in the files were wrong because of some clerk in their department. “If IAS officers have to follow what clerks in the departments tell them,then what for they are called IAS officer.”

He blamed the previous government for creating an “undemocratic” working environment,which is acting as a hurdle in the proper functioning of the government.

“Industrialists should not be harassed in the state. I have been told that files remain pending for months. I give you a week’s time,and after a week,officers found with maximum pending files on their tables would be punished,” he said.

Promising Industrialists that the government would give them all the support,Akhilesh said that while UP is ahead in production of wheat,sugarcane and even milk but states like Punjab and Gujarat take all the credit due to their publicity tactics. He also reminded industrialists that how the UP government has made land available to central government for setting up AIIMS in Rae Bareli free of cost.

Earlier,president,Indian Industries Association,Jugal Kishore,in his speech,had launched a broadside at the state government. “I am sorry to say this but the UP government sits on urgent files for at least eight to nine months. It is high time they defined the time-limit for urgent work. There is no deadline for government departments to release our payments. When reminded about it,they threaten to black-list our companies from future tenders.” said Kishore in the presence of the Chief Minister and Minister for Micro,Small and Medium scale industries Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar.

Kishore also raised the issue of frequent transfers of senior officers in the state,“By the time any officer understands our problem and tries to come out with some solution,he is transferred.”

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