Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore (RJP)

Mangalore, Sep 22: A special initiative to clear files on the weekend has paid off. The government workers who worked extra on the weekend have managed to clear 23,000 files in the district.

Following the directive by the deputy commissioner AB Ibrahim to government workers in the district to clear around one lakh pending files, so far they have managed to clear about 20% of the files in two days time. And one third of the files were cleared at the revenue department headed by the DC himself. A majority of these files are relating to the pension applications.

The main inspiration for the initiative was a successful drive launched by the chief secretary Kaushik Mukherjee at the Vidhana Soudha recently. The district in-charge minister had asked the officials in the district to emulate the file disposal drive at the Vidhana Soudha.

Revenue department with 10,890 files and Mangalore City Corporation with 3,052 files were among the top in disposal of files where 23000 odd files were cleared.

A statement from city corporation said that 1903 and 1149 files were disposed on Saturday and Sunday respectively with being only 647 files pending now.

As per the optimism expressed by the DC, similar arrangement on a specific day every month in the future will be made if the district in charge minister gets the proposal passed in the cabinet. It should be remembered that a Saturdays meant for exclusively for file disposals existed in the past.

Though the public were informed that the offices would remain open on Saturday and Sunday, the response from the public was lukewarm.