Mangalore: Faltering, Inefficient Officials Irk Minorities Commission Chairman
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Daijiworld Media Network – Mangalore (PS)
Mangalore, Sep 13: Government officers struggling to answer questions due to lack of information, officers dilly-dallying on answers regarding projects meant for minorities, misleading figures in official reports, all these deterrents pushed the actual purpose of the progress review meeting to a corner, even as a furious chairman of the state minorities commission took the officials to task for hours for their inefficiency.
At a meeting held to review progress and hear grievances of people belonging to minority community that was held at the conference hall of DC’s office here on Tuesday September 13, Anwar Manipady, chairman of the state minorities commission said that the meeting would help him to recommend to the government various steps to sort out issues related to minorities, and urged the officers to attend the meeting armed with correct information.
DC Channappa Gowda, ZP CEO Dr Vijay Prakash, police commissioner Seemanth Kumar Singh and SP Laburam also were present.
For a query by the chairman, DDP, Public Instruction Department Moses Jayashekar said that the difference in the number of dropouts from minority and majority communities in Dakshina Kannada is lesser than in other districts. In 18 minority government-aided schools in the district, infrastructure has been provided under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, said Shivaprakash, project officer of Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan.
The chairman also enquired whether as per the government order 30 % of the facilities under Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan has been given to minority children, and the answer from the officer concerned was positive.
Dr Sangameshwar, district surgeon, Wenlock hospital who was late to the meeting by an hour said that other official work delayed him. As the complaints were raised by the public about corruption and issues related to payment of money for treatment and the chaos in Wenlock mortuary, Dr Sangamesh who seemed to lose his patience raised his voice and asked them to give specific complaints on specific doctors. He added that given all the complaints, he wished he weren't a doctor, for which the chairman reprimanded him. He left the meeting soon.
Women and children welfare department officer and DDP of fisheries department also announced their projects for minorities.
On issues related to the police department, the chairman said that 4 percent of the appointments is reserved for minorities. There was a suggestion to extend help in the way of salary to be given to teachers in Madrasas by the government as a few madarasas are facing financial constraints. There was also request for withdrawal of the church attack cases on Christians with immediate effect.
Top-level officers of some of the departments were not present and had sent their subordinates, which irked Manipady. Also, an officer of the education department who came to the meeting without proper information was asked to leave.