Anandiben coins ‘Gatishil Gujarat’ slogan, releases 100-days work-agenda

Gandhinagar, 23 June, 2014

Gujarat Chief Minister Smt. Anandiben Patel today released the “Work-Agenda Programme” of her Government for 100 days aimed at making the state as a “Dynamic Gujarat.”

With a view to give a new mode to the dynamism and growth of Gujarat’s development, on completion of her 30-days in the office Smt. Patel released the “Work-Agenda Programme” of her Government for 100-days.

This work-agenda programme is consisting of as many as 11 aspects pertaining to all-round development, public and social welfare programmes which include Women Empowerment, Malnutrition Free Gujarat, Mahatma Gandhi Cleanliness Drive and others.

Nitin Patel briefs:

“Specific targets have been given for each subject and the state administration has been asked to deliver on these targets,” Nitinbhai Patel said.

He accepted that these are routine issues, but claimed that aggressive targets have been set for the administration.

For example, he said that under the Mahatma Gandhi cleanliness drive, 2,500 villages would be given approvals to manage their solid and liquid wastes, more than 75,000 pieces of equipment worth Rs 100 crore would be distributed to 185 municipalities and construction of 50,000 personal toilets would be completed in rural areas.

Earlier in the day, Patel chaired a meeting with all government secretaries to finalise the 100-days agenda and also instructed officials to regularly follow up, in order to achieve targets.

Anandiben briefs ministers/officers:

In the meeting held for the agenda, Smt. Patel instructed her Ministers and senior officials to implement these programmes at Taluka and district levels to fulfill the state goverrnmetn’s aim of making Gujarat a prosperous State.

In this reference, Smt. Patel told each district-in-charge minister and secretary that during their visit to respective district they must provide guidelines to raise the bar for good gernance and administration.

The Chief Minister also urged them to keep co-ordination with the concern department of the government, to take follow-up and monitor too.

Smt. Patel had emphasized on the needs to decentralize the works at taluka depending upon the importance of the various schemes and public welfare works of the department of the 100-days programmes.

Earlier in his welcome speech, Chief Secretary Dr. Varesh Sinha had expressed a confidence that the aim of 100-days work-agenda would be fulfilled under the farsighted leadership of the Chief Minister.

The meeting was attended by state cabinet ministers, senior secretaries and officials of the department.