Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will Wednesday launch ‘Mo Sarkar’, a programme to empower citizens, on the occasion of 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.
In August this year, Naveen Patnaik had announced the launch of the initiative which could bring in accountability, transparency and responsiveness to governance. In the first phase, the programme would cover all police stations and district headquarters hospitals (DHHs).
The initiative will be rolled out from Shahid Nagar police station and Capital Hospital in the city. The ‘Mo Sarkar’ (My Government) initiative is an important transformative move under the 5T programme which was introduced by Naveen Patnaik after he returned to power for the fifth consecutive term.
Under the programme, when a complainant visits a police station for filing a complaint or petition, his or her mobile number will be uploaded by the police personnel present there onto the centralised database.
Naveen has already conducted meetings with police officers, Collectors, doctors and medical officials and briefed them about the importance of ‘Mo Sarkar’. Odisha is the first state in the country to have launched a programme like this.
Starting Wednesday, the Chief Minister will personally make phone calls every day to gather feedback on the initiative. The phone numbers would be chosen randomly from the database of complainants who have visited police stations and hospitals.
Similarly, the police officers from ranks of SP to DGP and medical officers to Health Minister will make phone calls to a specified number of complainants and check how they were treated.
BJP leader Sameer Mohanty said, “There is no problem in launching schemes. However, does the government have enough staff to take these schemes to people?”
State Congress president Niranjan Patnaik suggested, the programme could have been christened ‘Ama Sarkar’ instead of ‘Mo Sarkar’.
PNN