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| PM asks top Babus to meet challenges | | First CS Conference | |
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New Delhi, Feb 1: Calling Chief Secretaries as the pivotal point in state administration, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said it was incumbent upon them to ensure that the administrative apparatus is geared to match the challenges it faces.
Inaugurating the two-day Conference of Chief Secretaries of States/Union Territories, Dr Singh said ''the Central Government has attached the highest importance to our growth being inclusive in nature.'' ''But since India lives in states and unless the states move forward at a pace that is adequate to the challenges, we face, we cannot claim that we have delivered inclusive growth,'' the Prime Minister stated.
Urging state governments to focus their energy on the area of increasing agricultural productivity as ''we still rank far below the best in the world in this regard,'' he suggested that states must undertake to place some of their best and committed officials as agricultural production commissioners given the importance of agriculture in our economy.
In his address, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions Prithviraj Chauhan said Chief Secretaries in States, while having to address the macro and policy level issues on one hand, attend to details and guide the lower formations to ensure efficient delivery of basic services on the other.
Regular interaction between them and the Government was important for better synergy and convergence in approach, he said, while requesting them to take a personal interest in early implementation of administrative reforms recommended by the Second Administrative Reforms Commission.
He further said capacity building of government functionaries needed special attention which was essential for optimum performance and motivation of the civil servants and for this, his Ministry has introduced some models which could be useful.
Asking states to provide the necessary infrastructure for the proposed 71 additional Special Courts for CBI, Mr Chauhan said CBI has a backlog of over 9,000 cases which have been investigated, but are pending prosecution. Both recurring and non-recurring expenditure in setting up and functioning of these special courts is to be reimbursed by the Government. ''However, so far we could issue orders for setting up only seven Special Courts - six in Maharashtra and one at Hyderabad,'' he added.
Later, Mr Chauhan also inaugurated an exhibition on the projects by CSIR and Ministry of Earth Sciences, that primarily pertain to technologies for better quality of life, which can be adopted by the states at the ground level.
The Conference is an attempt to collaborate on certain issues which are of concern to all, aims at institutionalising the process of interaction with states/UTs and will serve as a standing forum for exchange of views between the Centre and the states and provide an occasion for interaction on internal matters.
The conference would discuss issues relating to the latest trend in technology, emerging global challenges and opportunities and key security concerns and the role of state governments, besides global developments that have a bearing on the country would also be deliberated upon.
The two-day conference is being organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions.
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