Modi’s this address to govt officers is purely about governence, and it is in Gujarati(Video)

Gandhinagar, 14 October 2013

Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Narendra Modi today addressed Chintan Shibir on ‘Aapno Taluko Vibrant Taluko’. Modi’s this speech is in Gujarati and it is purely about departmental governance. However significant time of this speech is occupied by measures suggested to counter malnutrition. Is offering a piece of nutritious food intake to rural kid the government’s job? Modi cleared the doubts and firmly told govt officials, it is very much government’s job. Detail report:

Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi appeals to make ATVT more lively and competent

Gujarat chief minister Mr. Narendra Modi while addressing the Chintan Shibir on Aapno Taluko Vibrant Taluko (ATVT) here on Monday in Gandhinagar called on the Prant Officers to make the entire governance system of ATVT programme more lively and influential. Mr. Modi inaugurated the Chintan Shibir here at Mahatma Mandir.

In his inaugural remarks, Mr. Modi said, “The number of prant officers in the state has doubled and on average each officer is tasked with the responsibility of overall development and wellbeing of two talukas.” In this backdrop, it is essential that offer inspirational leadership for an excellent delivery system of government services and for the social partnership, Mr. Modi said.

For the state’s development scaling new heights, Mr. Modi praised the competency and power of Team Gujarat and credited them for this achievement. He said, “We have got success in decentralizing of the power following the Panchayati Raj system. Similarly, after district level, taluka team will follow the suit for developing a system of decentralizing the power. A routine system becomes a burden for itself if we fail to bring qualitative changes into it.” Thus to lessen the governance workload in Gujarat, it has taken up the task of developing ATVT and given the responsibility of two talukas for each prant, said Mr. Modi, adding that the onus for providing leadership role, making it competent, lively and result oriented lies with the taluka team.

Mr. Modi said that successful organization of Garib Mela Abhiyaan across the state has proven the competency of taluka level team. He said such an environment is already in place where each taluka competes with another for development. Over 248 taluka officers took part in ATVT Shibir. Referring to taluka officers, Mr. Modi said they could inspire the over 5 lakh hands working for government sector to bring in revolutionary qualitative development and inspire a society at large.

For the girl students studying in the 10th and 12th standard, Mr. Modi appealed to take full advantage of Mission Balam Sukham and take it up on a mission mode in order to eradicate malnutrition from across the state.

Apart from participating prant officers, Revenue Minister Anandiben Patel, Women and Children’s Welfare Minister Ganpatbhai Vasava, minister of state Vasuben Trivedi, secretaries and all the district development officers were present also on this occasion. Chief Secretary Dr. Varesh Sinha gave the outline of the Shibir while secretary Women and Child Development Anju Sharma welcomed the participants.