Yogi issues instructions: Officials, depts to face action if letters of MPs & MLAs ignored
The order came in the wake of the MPs and MLAs raising concerns about the officers in districts ignoring their letters, complaints and recommendations on local issues
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Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath (File)Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has issued strict instructions to top government officers to take strict action against officials and employees neglecting letters from MPs, MLAs and other public representatives on public complaints.
Following the Chief Minister’s orders, the state Parliamentary Affairs Department has issued a directive to all key officials, including principal secretaries, director generals of police (DGPs), divisional commissioners and district magistrates.
The order came in the wake of the MPs and MLAs raising concerns about the officers in districts ignoring their letters, complaints and recommendations on local issues.
Recently, former BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, in an interaction with mediapersons, claimed that district magistrates ignore the public representatives and that MLAs even go to the extent of touching the feet of DMs to get their work done.
The officials have been instructed to maintain a correspondence register in every government office to record letters from public representatives. They have been asked to send immediate replies and communicate the status of the matter’s resolution to the representative concerned, and thus no room should be left for repeat correspondence.
According to the Chief Minister’s instructions, any officer or employee who ignores the public representatives’ letters will face strict disciplinary action.
In the recent years, the issue of officials in districts not responding to the concerns of the MLAs and MPs was raised several times in coordination meetings held between the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh and the BJP and the Chief Minister with RSS top functionaries. The MLAs had also voiced their concern over the issue with the Assembly speaker.
The Parliamentary Affairs Department had intervened in October last year, issuing instructions to all the officials over a complaint raised by the MPs, MLAs and MLCs as how the officers humiliate them just to assert their importance.
The public representatives had even resented being offered ordinary chairs when they go to visit officers who themselves sit on a sofa or a taller chair with a white towel.
The issue snowballed to the extent that the then chief secretary had to hold a video conference with officers heading key departments and also the officers in districts.
The chief secretary had ordered that the public representatives should not be treated this way and be given respect properly when they visit the officers.
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