{"id":49364,"date":"2025-04-22T17:36:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/?p=49364"},"modified":"2025-04-22T17:46:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T17:46:24","slug":"chief-secretary-directed-for-field-exposure-of-officials-for-grassroot-knowledge-on-implementation-of-schemes-and-quicker-decisionmaking-in-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/2025\/04\/22\/chief-secretary-directed-for-field-exposure-of-officials-for-grassroot-knowledge-on-implementation-of-schemes-and-quicker-decisionmaking-in-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief Secretary directed for field exposure of officials for grassroot knowledge on implementation of schemes and quicker decisionmaking in Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The CS advised to start this field visit with the Aspirational Districts in the beginning<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>This will bring departments closer to know ground realities, resulting in better Governance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Bhubaneswar,22\/4\/2025 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )-\u00a0 Chief Secretary,Odisha Shri Manoj Ahuja, IAS has directed for field exposure of officials for grass root knowledge on implementation of schemes and quicker decision making in Government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Chief Secretary in a letter sent to all Additional Chief Secretaries, Principal Secretaries ,Commissioner-cum-Secretaries , RDCs and Collectors today has mentioned that decision making process in Government becomes result <img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-49365 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Manoj-Ahuja-300x274.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Manoj-Ahuja-300x274.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Manoj-Ahuja.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>oriented and faster, when Officers and Staff dealing with file work in offices are exposed to and conversant with ground realities in the field. Practical difficulties faced by the field functionaries as well as citizens while implementing the assignments needs to be understood and remedied effectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To make policies and decisions more aligned to the ground realities, Chief Secretary\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 has directed that, all the Departments should make a Plan\/Schedule for all\u00a0 officials, from Assistant Section Officer\/Section Officer on wards,in the office,to visit\u00a0 the field in rotation. This will be applicable to all those, who in the normal course do\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 not undertake tours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">During the visit, they should closely observe and shadow a field worker at the grass \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 root level for a day and observe implementation of the Schemes, Programmes relating \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 to the Department concerned.As an illustration, personnel of W&amp;CD Department\u00a0 may\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 be directed to\u00a0 attach\u00a0 themselves\u00a0 fora full day to an AWC, observe and follow the work done by an Anganwadi Worker in detail\u00a0 throughout\u00a0 the day.\u00a0 Similarly, officials of the H&amp; FW Department should observe the services rendered by Accredited Social \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Health Activist (ASHA) under National Rural Health Mission(NRHM).He also advised that the officials should also be encouraged to make a night halt in the place of visit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0The Chief Secretary has remarked that the purpose of this exercise is not giving \u00a0\u00a0 directions or reviewing the work of field \u00a0\u00a0 functionaries. It is to observe and learn about \u00a0 the work of the field level workers in a non-obtrusive manner as well as know more\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 about the impact on citizens and \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 understand the problems,issues and also good \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 practices at that level;On return, they are to submit at least one suggestion\/idea to \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the Secretary of the Department concerned for improvement of implementation of the\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Project\/Programme\/Scheme visited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Departments will consolidate such ideas\/recommendation, examine them and take these forward by amending the existing process flow\/policies\/guidelines etc.\u00a0 to enable\u00a0 \u00a0 better delivery of services to the people;and Secretaries will be called upon to make \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 presentations during the All Secretaries Meeting for learning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Chief Secretary has advised to start this field visit with the Aspirational Districts in the beginning, and commence from this month itself to bring decision making in files in \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 the Department closer to ground realities, thus resulting in better Governance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The CS advised to start this field visit with the Aspirational Districts in the beginning \u00a0This will bring departments closer to know ground realities, resulting in better Governance \u00a0Bhubaneswar,22\/4\/2025 ( Odisha Samachar \/ Rajat Mohapatra )-\u00a0 Chief Secretary,Odisha Shri Manoj Ahuja, IAS has directed for field exposure of officials for grass root knowledge on implementation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":49365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49364"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49370,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49364\/revisions\/49370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eodishasamachar.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}