Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy is planning to embark on a mass contact programme.
He told The Hindu that along with Ministers and officials, he proposed to hold mass contact programmes to address the grievances of people, once the budget session of the Assembly concludes in March-April.
“We will be clubbing two or three constituencies and meeting the public at a common place. It will be a day-long affair with the entire Cabinet and officials addressing the problems of the people. Essentially, we want to reach out to the people,” he said.
The former Chief Ministers Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy and Oommen Chandy had conducted successful mass contact programmes in Andhra Pradesh and Kerala.
The Chief Minister said if the budget session was pushed to April, he would advance it to March. “It depends on the scheduling of the budget session,” he said.
On Friday, he visited his own constituency of Nellithope to get a direct feedback from public. He asked the officials to find ways to issue original patta to a few residents of Venila Nagar. People at Sathya Nagar complained about lack of public toilets. They wanted the Chief Minister to build a children’s park in their locality.
He inspected a ration outlet to enquire about the quality of rice supplied and then proceeded to Peter Nagar.
Office at Anna Nagar
The Chief Minister had decided to set up an office at Anna Nagar where he proposed to spend about one hour on all working days.
District Collector Satyendra Singh Dursawat, Secretary Local Administration Department P. Jawahar and Chief Engineer of Public Works Department P. Swaminathan were present.
