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Skipping Sunday holiday, government officers clear files

Last Updated 07 September 2014, 20:32 IST

A file clearance drive taken up by the State government entered its fifth day on Sunday with officials of the State secretariat giving up their holiday and attending to work at Vidhana Soudha, Vikasa Soudha and MS Building.

The move follows a decision of the State Cabinet late last month that pending files across departments should be disposed of at the earliest. Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, at the meeting, had expressed his displeasure at the pendency of files and directed Chief Secretary Kaushik Mukherjee to take up remedial measures.

“We had started the drive on Wednesday and all officials of departments which had large pendency of files were asked to work on Sunday. No target was set but we expect that 40,000 files have been disposed of during the drive. The priority was that files pending for the last two and three years be disposed,” Mukherjee told Deccan Herald.

He said stock taking of the present drive would be taken up on Monday and the next phase of the drive will be announced soon. No compensatory off would be allotted to the employees who worked on Sunday.

 Department heads, under-secretaries and supporting staff started entering their offices located in secretariat buildings from 10:30 am and worked full day. The security staff did not allow any visitors inside.

In a bid to bring reforms in administration and simplify governance, a committee headed by Law Minister T B Jayachandra had recommended in November last year that top priority should be accorded to file clearance.
However, as there was not much progress, the issue was discussed in the State Cabinet on August 28. It was noted that as many as 1.31 lakh files were pending clearance.

The highest number of files were pending in revenue department (26,616), followed by home department (23,283) and department of personnel and administrative reforms (18,998).

Mukherjee on Sunday visited various offices in the State secretariat, interacted with officials and monitored the progress of work. “Some offices are filled with files. Files even occupied chairs meant for visitors. These files will be sent to the record rooms,” he told reporters.

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(Published 07 September 2014, 20:22 IST)

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