Bhagwant Mann directs DCs to hold outdoor meetings to take up villagers’ problems

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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Monday asked the Deputy Commissioners to regularly convene outdoor meetings in the field especially in villages to ensure on the spot redressal of people’s grievances to their satisfaction.

Chairing a meeting of the Deputy Commissioners here at Punjab Bhawan this morning, Bhagwant Mann asked them to organize special camps along with their team of officials in a particular village or town at their doorsteps for prompt resolution of pending issues or problems faced by the general public in a result-oriented manner.

Terming the DCs as eyes and ears of state administration, Bhagwant Mann said, “You are the real face of the government because people have direct interface with you rather than us (government) as they repose unflinching trust and confidence in you”. He also urged them to conduct surprise checks at the Saanjh Kendras.

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In recognition of the best performance of Divisional Commissioners, DCs, SSPs, SDMs and other field officials, Bhagwant Mann also announced to honour such officers/officials with the ‘Best Performing Award’ to further motivate them to serve the people with missionary zeal.

In a bid to bring the drug addicts in the mainstream, Bhagwant Mann gave a target to start and upgrade all the drug de-addiction and rehabilitation centres in all the districts within a month so as to effectively rehabilitate the youth who have fallen prey to drugs.

The Chief Minister also assured the Deputy Commissioners of complete autonomy to discharge their duties to the best of their abilities and capacities without any political pressure. He, however, said that due respect and basic courtesies must be extended to the people’s representatives and common man being a prime duty.

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While reviewing the status of ongoing wheat procurement, Bhagwant Mann asked the DGP to further intensify the vigil round the clock in order to check illegal movement of wheat from across neighbouring states to Punjab. Bhagwant Mann asked the DGP to deploy 24X7 videography teams on these nakas till the end of procurement season.

Responding to Chief Minister’s concern in this regard, DGP VK Bhawra informed that out of 132 nakas put up by state police, as many as 86 are interstate nakas while 46 within the state with total deployment of 1150 police personnel. These surveillance operations are being overall supervised by the ADGP level officer MF Farooqui with senior police officials in the rank of SP and DSP in all the districts.