District Magistrate Burdwan to hold office at Asansol on 1st and 3rd Friday each month

It has been decided in the greater public interest to hold Office from ADM Asansol office on 1st and 3rd Friday of each month from 11 am to 2 pm or till last visitors. To make it effective a list of citizen services are being identified where people are required to come to DM Office Burdwan and that can be accorded approval at Asansol ADM Office. All decisions on such matters shall be taken at Asansol henceforth. Problems related to industrial areas, PSUs and other matters related to Institutins for Asansol may be heard by DM on these days for necessary administrative assistance and help.

It is also decided to identify the powers of DM which can be delegated to ADM Asansol so that general public is not required to come to Burdwan for those issues. ADM Asansol to send a detailed list of citizen services, works that can be taken up by DM on Friday office days.

First office day is 7th May 2010 from 11 hrs onwards.

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Health Check up of 100 % school student in Primary and Upper Primary schools Planned, endeavour to achieve biggest hand washing campaign in September

Encouraged by Burdwan Zilla Parishad's zeal to get record coverage of hand washing in a district on the same day, we may plan following in the months of August to September 2010 :-

• All Children in the age group of 3 months to 6 years to be weighed, growth chart prepared and malnourished children to be tracked through the process. Weighment at door step to cover 100 % children. Identified Grade III & IV will be covered under Special Nutrition of nutrimix kind so as to bring them under Grade normal or Grade I. Special mothers' meetings at each ICDS centres on fixed day and time in each month. Complete health check up of severely malnourished children i.e. Grade III & IV and there after corrective medical treatment or supplementary nutrition as the Case may be.
• All students from age 6 years to 14 years i.e. class I to VIII to be covered under heath check up in three stage screening process. Stage one at intuition level with the help of trained teacher in each class, followed by screening by technical persons like ANM, GNM, OA etc at PHC/ GP HQ Sub centre level and finally medical treatment of second stage screened students for complete cure and aid and appliances. Screening may be cover eye sight problems, skin disease and dental problems. Medical Officers from outside the district and local will be associated on payment, mobility support basis.
• Hand washing campaign at all institutions throughout the district on a single day on 15th September. 100 % ODF status and NGP.
• All GP HQ Sub centre walls to bear name of doctor, day and time of mobile health check up.
• All stakeholders to be associated.

Can one imagine, these three interventions may reach to 15 lakhs children directly and large number of population in the district. Let's come together to achieve the ambitious target.

Important meeting dates in next fortnight

• 23.04.2010 Writers' Building Kolkata Meeting re Queen's baton
• 25.04.2010 at 1 pm Meeting regarding WBSEDCL at Circuit House
• 25.04.2010 at 11 am Function of WBMDFC at Sanskriti
• 26.04.2010 at 12 noon Meeting re DISASTER MANAGEMENT preparedness.
• 26.04.2010 afternoon Chinsurah meeting Divisional Commissioner.
• 26.04.2010 at 11 am RTA Board Meeting
• 26.04.2010 at 12 noon Meeting of State Election Commission at Burdwan re Municipal Election Preparedness.
• 29.04.2010 at 10.30 am onwards Sub divisional Development meeting at Katwa for Katwa Kalna
• 30.04.2010 at 10.30 am onwards Sub divisional Development meeting at Durgapur for Asansol Durgapur Subdivisions.
• 03.05.2010 at 10.30 am onwards Sub divisional development meeting at Sanskriti for Sadar Subdivisions.
• 04.05.2010 at 10.30 am Sub divisional meeting on Primary Health, ICDS and Sanitation at Asansol
• 04.05.2010 at 2.30 pm Sub divisional meeting on Primary Health, ICDS and Sanitation at Durgapur
• 06.05.2010 Sub divisional health, ICDS and Sanitation meeting at 10.30 am at Katwa and at 2.30 pm at Kalna
• 07.05.2010 at 10.30 am at Sanskriti for Sadar North and at 2.30 pm for Sadar South.
• 10.05.2010 at 12 noon RGGVY review meeting at Burdwan ZP followed by MPLADS at 2 pm .
• 11.05.2010 at 11 am onwards General body meeting of Women's college Durgapur.
• 12.05.2010 at 10.30 am Recruitment Committee of DRDC
• 12.05.2010 at 12 noon Forest Rights Committee meeting

State Election Commissioner to hold meeting to review preparedness for Municipal Election 2010 on 28th April 2010

State Election Commissioner may hold review of Municipal Election 2010 preparedness for Burdwan, Purulia, Birbum, Bankura and Hooghly districts at Old Circuit House Burdwan on 28th April 2010.

Visit to BDO Office Burdwan-I, my first visit to Block formally

I visited BDO Burdwan-I office today at 10.10 am. Met BDO and Jt BDO, Sabhapati Panchayat Samity and other officers working at Block Office. Some of the observations are :-

• Block Office is well managed and maintained. Officer and staff is dynamic and active.
• RHS family details have been incorporated in the database for aal GPs by DEO. Now, printing of list of addtional IGNOAPS, IGNWPS and IGNDPS is going on. Block assured to get additional proposals verified by GP shortly. Present coverage of IGNOAPS is approximately 2500, that can be further increased once additional beneficiaries are selected. Coverage of widow pension is good, but that of disability pension needs further improvement. Special composite camps to identify disabled is felt necessary. DSWO to organise the same.
• Payment of pensions is streamlined in most of the cases. However, disbursement of pensions for all pensioners up to March must be completed within this month. Similarly, disbursement of widow pension and disability up to March must be completed as soon as the fund is credited in the block accounts by end of this month. There are minor problems related to post office payments, that is being sorted out by the BDO.
• NREGA work is good, able to provide 59 days work to each household. But, total coverage of families has further scope for improvement. Convergence with Pisciculture, social forestry and water conservation has not taken up adequately. Efforts for IBS performance are not adequate. Payment delays are minimal and being taken care of by BDO. Block is advised to take up earth work of MPLADS, BEUP road schemes.
• Vacancies of BIO, TA are required to be filled up. Appropriate instructions given to District Official concerned.
• Overall fund expenditure position is good.

Civil Police coordination meeting - salient decisions

Meeting of Civil and Police officials completed this evening at Burdwan Circuit House, well attended by Inspectors, SDPOs, Additional SPs, Sp, SDOs, ADMs, DM. In addition CMOH, Ld PP and Deputy Director Public Prosecution also participated in the deliberations. Discussions were very useful and heldful in law and order, prosecutions matters. After threadbare discussion some of the decisions taken are as follows :-

• SDOs will hold regular liasion meetings with SDPOs/ Zonal DSP on general administrative issues, improve information sharing mechanism, exchange list of pending inquiries in Executive Magistrate courts with SDPOs and SDLLROs.
• Joint inspection of court GRO, Lock up, Hazat, APPs office space to be organised by Sub divisional level officials are concerned department and steps shall be taken to improve the condition lock up and other infrastructures at these places. SDOs will extend furniture and other office support to APPs including Law Books.
• Hospital morgue up gradation and repair proposals shall be sent by SDOs after getting estimates from PWD.
• CMOH to issue appropriate directions to all Supdt of hospitals and MOs conducting Post Mortem/ Injury report to ensure timely submission of PM reports, injury reports and also to conduct PM on time. CMOH is to strengthen emergency management response of the hospitals so that the cases of public anger after accidents etc can be minimised.
• DLLRO to issue directions to BLLROs to submit reports to EM court in time.
• Two days' workshop on EM powers and handling of Writs shall be organised by ADM (JM) in the month of May 2010.
• Seminars on social legislation like Senior citizens act, Domestic Violence Act to be organised at each subdivision by ADM (SW) shortly.
• Daily Police Sitrep and crime report to be emailed to all SDOs and ADM Asansol by Police authorities. ADM General to communicate email to SP DIB.
• Deputy Director Public Prosecution to examine the status of prosecution in different courts and furnish his reports to DM for follow up.
• Infrastructural requirement of all Thana lock ups, Morgues, Dead houses and GRO offices to be strengthened on physical verification basis.
• TEAM WORK FOR COMMON CAUSE is the motto adopted.

Blocks to analyse NSAP data - improve coverage and minimise delays in payment

Under NSAP national flagship schemes viz IGNOAPS, IGNDPS and IGNWPS have been extended to all BPL families. It is noted that current coverage of beneficiaries under IGNOAPS is only 57000, IGNWPS approximately 17000 and IGNDPS only 500. Treating total BPL families approximately 4.65 lakhs, the beneficiaries could be 1.20 lakhs as per the State Average. That means we have less capturing of the families in BPL database and thereby hs scope the bring more people under the pension scheme. In half of blocks disbursement of these pensions is less than the estimated BPL population.

Officers at block must complete family detail entry and also see that all the eligible BPL families are covered.

Another problem noticed is that advice from blocks is sent through account payee cheque instead of drafts. It is advisable to issue draft to local Post Offices to fast track the payment.

Meeting regarding Queen,s baton rescheduled on 22nd April 2010

Administrative Matters meeting held in RTC conference hall at 3 pm on 22.04.2010. Some of the important decisions are:-

• Officer in charges shall organise regular internal meetings in sections on monthly basis and review of pending works dealing assistant wise. Officers to track important files/ follow up of meetings maintain case diaries. Meeting by DM/ ADMs on 4th Thursday of each month at 4 pm.
• Disposal of old electronic equipments and e-waste from sections by 30.06.2010 in all sections and final clearing of the section through cleaning drive, disposal of old dead stock and papers in systematic manner within 30.09.2010 ultimately. Collectorate to be declared clean and free of useless stock. Recycling of furniture and equipment in other offices and organisations. Disposal of old furniture/ dead stock and recycling of the furniture to be completed through team work and in mission mode.
• Citizen centric services.
• Audit replies and adjustments should be completed by 30th June 2010 up to date. PL accounts to be reconciled.
• Review meetings with field offices/ extension officers to be organised by ADMs/ District Officers where Zilla Parishad Karmadhyakshya may also be invited. Minutes must be written showing the action points and person entrusted to follow up. All meetings in DM chamber to be minuted by Officer in charge. File in meeting, court case hearing and important discussions must be sent to DM one day in advance for easy and speedy decisions. Use of VC on Friday to be increased to review with field officers.
• General instructions regarding office management and housekeeping were explained in detail. Citizen centric services to be written on wall for help to visitors.
• Staff welfare measures including enhancement of quality of services provided by Nazareth.
• Capacity Building trainings - use of RTC.
• E-governance projects should be activated.
• All sections to to take up staff shortage matters with SrDC and AD M General