K Chandrasekhar Rao asks ministers, IAS officers to camp in new districts

Hyderabad: 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, Mr Rao has directed that all ministers stay in the new new district headquarters for a month to address the teething problems.

The CM 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.”