District admin clears all pendency till September,2010

In a presentation made by district collector Chandrakant Dalvi to the media on Monday,he said for the last two years the district administration has been consistently working towards this initiative. “With Pune being an e-district,it was necessary to oil the system accordingly and make it effective. All officials from all sections were involved in the drive from 2008. The set of rules of the government which required files to be cleared in a stipulated time frame had to be implemented,” said the collector who said they were trying for the ISO 9000 status for the systematic implementation of the drive.

The first year,2008, saw the entire administration sorting out the files in the order of importance. File A is the most important,file B is to be preserved for 30 years,file C is to be preserved for 10 years and file D for one year. “I had to visit each and every office for all the talukas to mobilise the administration to clear the files according to this sections,” said the collector.

Resident deputy collector Anil Pawar said,“A weekly meeting was held by the collector to ensure that all officers were clearing the files in the stipulated time frame. On an average to achieve the target of 99 per cent,almost 1 lakh documents were being cleared from various departments under the collectorate.