Indicating the move towards a decentralised planning process, the Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao today asked district officials to prepare district specific plans in tune with locally available resources, needs and demands of the people. Speaking at the district collectors’ conference, he has directed to prepare resource-specific planning.
Referring to re-organisation of districts, he said for more efficiency in the administration, re-organisation was taken up with each district on an average of about 3 to 4 lakh households. He called upon the State administration to be more pro-active to ensure benefits of the re-organisation of the districts in the State reach the people. He said re-organisation of the districts was done to decentralise administrative wings so that the fruits of development and welfare schemes reached the beneficiaries without fail.
The Chief Minister said since the geographical size of the district has become short, it would be easier to monitor the administration. ‘Facilities and services in the government hospitals should improve since for each bed in these hospitals, the government is spending Rs 5000 per month. We have increased the budget for procuring medicines. Government hospitals should perform well and the Collectors should ensure this,’ he added.
On the availability of funds, the Chief Minister said about Rs 3 crore funds would be placed with each district collector. Powers will be given to the district collectors to utilise these funds for an emergency work and other important issues. He also suggested to utilise the constituency development funds of the Legislators and Parliament members. Focus on improving conditions in hospitals and hostels.
Referring to simmering discontent among the people towards various government programmes, KCR asked district officials to find out the reason where exactly things went wrong and try to find solutions. He cautioned that if the discontent among the people crosses its limits, then, some vested interests may take an undue advantage of it. In this background, he said that the official machinery should think in an innovative and creative way.
