In an image building exercise ahead of the Assembly polls,Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati today directed her top officials to work out a policy for effectively checking corruption in government schemes. The chief minister directed Cabinet Secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh to apprise divisional commissioners and district magistrates of her instruction and ask them to effectively implement the order. Singh,who later held a meeting of commissioners and district magistrates,asked them to oversee proper implementation of the UP Janhit Guarantee Law which entitles delivery of various public services,especially those concerning the weaker and poor sections within a specified period. The cabinet secretary said officials should fix responsibility on those who fail to ensure implementation of the law and take action against them. He directed officials on field duty to remain present in their offices for hearing complaints of common people between 10 am and 12 noon on all week days and ask complainants to leave behind their mobile numbers. These complaints and steps to redress them would later be randomly checked through the phone numbers,he said,asking all district magistrates to visit at least one village and sub-divisional magistrates five villages every week and organise open meetings so as to hear the grievances of villagers and dispose them. Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year.
