PNS|ELURU
District Collector V Prasanna Venkatesh has directed the panchayat secretaries to serve better to the people by resolving their grievances.
The Collector inaugurated a training programme for 821 grade-1 to grade-5 panchayat secretaries of the combined West Godavari district in the Collectorate here on Tuesday. Speaking on the occasion, the Collector said that the role of panchayat secretaries has assumed significance in the backdrop of implementing various welfare schemes.
Programmes like identification of beneficiaries, implementation of schemes and JKC audit should be carried forward efficiently, he told them.
The Collector exhorted the secretaries to provide efficient services using this training programme, adding that especially in the training programme, they should listen carefully to the training imparted on the land re-survey for two days and know how to prepare when they go up to the field.
“In view of the fact that after this training, the goals will also be set one should carefully listen to every aspect of the training. There are mostly complaints about sanitation and encroachment,” the Collector told them.
The Collector asked the secretaries to know the points to be followed in connection with the encroachments. “The Panchayat secretaries should not give endorsement. The EOs, RDOs and MPDOs should issue the same. On the other hand, you should know the aspects related to tax collections and layouts. The secretaries acting as BLOs should be made aware of the issues in this regard,” Collector Prasanna Venkatesh said.
Regarding voter registration, additions and changes in Form-6, 7 and 8, especially the matter of deleting deceased voters, should be handled very carefully, he told them. If the panchayat secretaries were told about the topics that would be taught on the next day of the training, they could study those topics so that they would have a complete grasp of those topics, the Collector said.
District Panchayat Officer Tuthika Srinivasa Viswanath said that 821 Panchayat Secretaries of which 423 from Eluru district and 350 from West Godavari district were participating in the training programme.
A total of six days of residential training would be provided in Eluru for each batch. Training coordinator Prasangi Raju DLDO Shirisha and other officials were present.
