Mumbai: Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis is keeping civil servants on their toes. Soon after concluding a 100-day programme for the state government to improve its service delivery and efficiency, Fadnavis Tuesday announced a second 150-day programme for all departments in the state.
This 150-day programme, he said, will focus largely on three elements—a roadmap for a fully developed Maharashtra by 2047, 100 percent e-governance when it comes to delivery of services, and service-related administrative reforms.
Fadnavis made the announcement after hosting a state cabinet meeting at Ahilyanagar.
“We had implemented a 100-day programme in the state. There were two parts to it, one was improving government offices and the other was implementing new policies. A total of 12,500 state government offices in the state participated in the drive to improve offices. Also, the 48 departments in the government had come up with 902 policy decisions to implement. Of these, 706, or 78 percent, were completed,” the CM told reporters. “From today, 6 May to 2 October, we are announcing a 150-day programme.”
The CM laid out the basic objectives of the 150-day programme, promising to elaborate more it 7 May when the Mahayuti government will felicitate government officials for implementing the 100-day programme.
Separately, Fadnavis also welcomed the Supreme Court’s directions to hold all pending local body elections in four months and said the Mahayuti alliance will contest these polls unitedly.
“At some places there could be a different decision, here and there, which will be taken at the local level. But, by and large Mahayuti will fight these elections as an alliance,” he told reporters.
The Mahayuti comprises the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP).
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The new challenge
The new 150-day challenge, the results of which Fadnavis will announce 2 October, will require departments to draw up a phase-wise road map for a fully developed Maharashtra by 2047.
For the first phase, departments will have to chart out an action plan till 2029. The action plan for the second phase will be with the target year of 2035, and finally in the third phase, departments will lay down a roadmap till 2047.
Overall, the state government has also set a target of becoming a trillion-dollar economy by 2028. “Then, every department will have to implement e governance reforms. People should get 100 percent governance online. Nobody should need to come to government offices physically,” Fadnavis said.
The CM did not give much details on the third aspect of the plan, which involves implementing service-oriented reforms.
The 100-day plan concluded 1 May, for which Fadnavis had engaged the Centre’s Quality Council of India to evaluate the performance of departments. The Mahayuti government completed 100 days in office 14 April, but the report was released 1 May.
The Quality Council of India report said, of the 48 departments, 12 had completed 100 percent of the tasks assigned, while 18 had done more than 80 percent of the tasks. The bottom three departments—General Administration Department, Urban Development Department and Food and Civil Supplies Department—were led by the three Mahayuti leaders, CM Fadnavis, Deputy CM Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, respectively.
(Edited by Tony Rai)
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