The Telangana Government has created history with new districts. But the administration is yet to take off in a proper manner. There are lot of gaps for the officials in the administration and the people are yet to know about who is who in the administration.
To tackle the issue the Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao has roped in ministers and senior IAS officers to help out the fledgling administration in the 21 new districts.
With almost all offices grappling with the shortage of staff and infrastructure, KCR has directed that all ministers stay in the new district headquarters for a month to address the teething problems.
The CM Chandrasekhar Rao will hold a conference with collectors, joint collectors, SPs and officials of new districts this week to take stock of the situation.
The Rs 1-crore announced by the government for each new district to procure furniture, computers, communication systems among others has still not reached the new offices.
Five senior IAS officers including Mr K. Pradeep Chandra, Mr S.P. Singh and Mr M.G. Gopal have been assigned the duty of streamlining the administration.
Their main task is to set up video conferencing facility to link all new districts with state Secretariat to enable the CM, the chief secretary and senior officials to interact with officials and guide them to overcome teething troubles.
Housing minister A. Indrakaran Reddy, who was allotted Nirmal district, said, “We were able to overcome several teething troubles within five days of launching of new districts.”
He said attendance in the new offices had reached 100 per cent within three days, which was encouraging. “The results of new districts are already being felt with easy accessibility of key officials to the public.”
Power minister G. Jagadish Reddy, who is staying on in Suryapet district, said, “There are some initial problems like staff and infra shortage, which we are trying to overcome.”
Minister for IT KT Rama Rao is yet to look into the issues of new district Sircialla. He is in USA scouting for the business partners for the development of TS. Harish Rao the Minister for Irrigation is already busy with developing infrastructure for Siddipet.
But on the whole it will take some time for the situation to improve in the new districts.
