Hyderabad: Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy on Friday directed officials to take necessary steps to resolve problems being faced by the people instantly. He asked the officials to draft modalities to allot specific time and special permissions to the people who come to the Secretariat to lodge their grievances at the ministers chambers. Revanth Reddy chaired a high-level review meeting at the Secretariat on Friday.
Chief Secretary A. Santhi Kumari, DGP Ravi Gupta, finance secretary T.K. Sridevi, health secretary S.A.M. Rizvi, medical recruitment board secretary Gopikanth, Hyderabad police commissioner K. Srinivas Reddy, police recruitment board secretary V.V. Srinivasa Rao, additional commissioner of police Vikram Singh and others participated in the meeting.
The CM said that meetings will be held in the villages and towns for one or two days in the first week of every month will help to address the grievances of people immediately and then the number of people visiting Hyderabad will be reduced.
For this, the authorities have been asked to organise meetings in towns and villages and take appropriate measures to solve their problems promptly at the local level.
The CM said that the meetings will help to establish good relations between the government and the people. The government will have an opportunity to work in a cordial atmosphere.
Revanth Reddy asked the officials that all the appeals and complaints should be digitised and the status should be informed to the people from time to time.
As the bi-weekly Praja Vani is receiving an excellent response, the Chief Minister asked officials to increase the number of tables for receiving the complaints and to provide basic facilities such as safe drinking water and other facilities to the visitors.
The CM also ordered the officials to receive the people at Praja Vani with utmost care and should not cause any trouble to them. The CM suggested that the services of trainee IAS officers should also be utilised.
In another review meeting with police and health officials, the CM directed them to speed up recruitments in police and health departments. He directed officials to ensure transparency in the recruitment process and not give any scope for irregularities in the process.
He asked officials to prepare proposals for setting up special residential schools for children of police personnel and TSRTC staff on the lines of Korukonda Sainik School. He also observed that there was no recruitment of home guards in the police department in the last nine years.
