Collectorates fail to report action taken
Telangana CM K. Chandrasekhar Rao
Hyderabad: Hundreds of petitions submitted by people to the Telangana Chief Minister’s Office have gone missing. Some people submitted petitions seeking houses, ration cards, pensions, scholarships among others, to Chief Minister, K. Chandrasekhar Rao, directly when he was on his tours in the city and districts. Many others sent their requests by post to the CMO. The CMO sorted out all these applications district-wise and sent them to the district collectorates for redressal, which in turn referred them to the respective departments for action.
However, no one knows what happened to these petitions and the departments and collectorates failed to report back. They have to upload all these petitions online and specify action taken in this regard on the Telangana State Petition Monitoring System. However, the departments simply ignored them keeping the CMO in the dark over the status of those petitions.
In the Hyderabad collectorate jurisdiction alone, nearly 700 such petitions have gone missing. If this is the situation in the state capital, from where the CM and the entire state administration functions, the situation in the districts can easily be imagined. The CMO sent over 600 petitions seeking houses to the Hyderabad collectorate, which cannot be traced now. The petitions were not uploaded for a year. Two petitions pertain to physically challenged, two petitions of social welfare, BC corporation (4), women and child welfare (2), education (6), youth service (2) are also missing.
The CMO took a serious view of this issue and directed Hyderabad district administration to submit ‘action taken report’ on these petitions at the earliest and upload them on the online system.Following this, Hyderabad district revenue officer, V. Ashok Kumar directed officials to trace the petitions in respective departments, upload them online, specify the action taken and submit it to the collectorate.
( Source : deccan chronicle )
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