In a step that may make the district administration responsive besides help strengthen decentralisation of administration, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Tuesday warned of holding district-level officials and the Secretaries in-charge of districts responsible if people come all the way to the State capital seeking solution to their problems.
“If the district-level officials allow people to go through the ordeal of coming to Bangalore to tap the doors of the highest authorities, then it will be a clear indication that the district administration has failed to deliver. People are made to come to Bangalore even for routine and small things. The district-level officials concerned will be made responsible for such lapses,” Mr. Siddaramaiah told presspersons after the two-day meeting with the deputy commissioners and chief executive officers of zilla panchayats and heads of various government departments that was held for the first time after he took over as Chief Minister, to indicate the expectations of the new political dispensation from the bureaucracy.
“As far as possible, you must try to provide solution to people at the district-level itself by being responsive,” he told the top bureaucrats, warning action against officials guilty of dereliction of duty.
Stressing the need to take administration to grassroots level, he instructed the Secretaries in-charge of districts to take up frequent visits of not only their respective districts, but also taluks and villages to activate administrative machinery at the grassroot level.
