Chief Minister Modi’s innovative initiative: One-Day One-District

Chief Minister Modi’s innovative initiative: One-Day One-District
By Mukul Bhatt, Kaushik Mehta
Gandhinagar, DeshGujarat, 24 September, 2009



In a landmark initiative, Chief Minister Shree Narendrabhai Modi has decided to launch One Day One District Movement. It is going to cover all the 25 districts of State. Prier to that, Secretaries holding the charge of district would tour all the Talukas. And he would meet the people. On the second day of their tour, In-Charge Minister would also join them.

Chief Minister’s secretariat had issued necessary guidelines in this regard. “Meetings were convened at all the district places for seeking suggestions and representations. Administrative and development data has been compiled after detailed analysis and deep scrutiny. Members of the Assembly, President of District Panchayat, District Collectors and District Development Officers attended the meetings .They had made useful suggestions about Taluka-Units. ”

Chief Minister had inspired In-Charge Secretaries of the districts about the tour plans. According to that, they held meetings with office bearers. They had `1elaborated upon the attitude and policy initiatives of state government, implementation of government schemes. After carrying out deep study, they mulled crucial changes for on the spot solutions. They also gave feed back to C.M.

Chief Minister announced to organise Lok Kalyan Melas at all 225 Talukas. The welfare fairs are aimed to cater to the individual beneficiaries with full potential. Chief Minister inspired the officials make team efforts in this regard.

Chief Minister asked the In-charge Secretaries to play a leading role for making district and taluka administration much more vibrant. Chief Minister outlined “Four M Formulas” to achieve the goal. Four M Formula covers significant features- “Man Power- Machine (Including Resources and Technologies) – Money (Financial resources, grant allocations) – Movement (Implementing welfare initiatives with speed) – . State is poised for transformation. It envisions Model of development that takes visionary initiatives to solve the problems of people. Chief Minister has taken up the task as a mission to bring about qualitative changes in public service delivery system. He has inspired the district teams for achieving the goal.

In past, nobody intensely put in any effort to make the administration vibrant and responsive. Referring to the positive changes that has arrived in the last seven years, Chief Minister said,” State has ensured that an official gets an opportunity to function with the element of stability .That too without any political interference. There are no discrepancies in policy matters, adequate funds and grants are available to achieve the targets. They are fully equipped to provide positive leadership to the team. Trust and faith has been built up, which is going to deliver better results at every level. ”

Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries, In-charge Secretaries, Secretaries, attended the meet presided by the C.M. and made some of the very useful suggestions.