Wednesday, April 18, 2007

‘Great innovations here but we’ve No 1 CM’ : Bihar Dy CM

BIHAR might be backward but its Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is number one in the country, and not Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi.
Although poor, it already has a Rs 60,000 crore investment pipeline, of which Rs 40,000 crore is in various stages of implementation. Also, while Gujarat gets awards for being IT savvy, it is Bihar that has implemented the Right to Information over phone.
Bihar Deputy Chief Minister and BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi, who was in the capital to see presentations on best practices by State Government departments, slipped in some facts on Bihar that might not have gone down well with the administration.
Though Gujarat’s Modi was not welcomed in Bihar election campaign, Bihar’s Modi was all praise for Gujarat and its administrative innovations, some of which he said his state would like to replicate.
Jyotigram, Chiranjivi, Kanya Kelavani and Krushi Mahotsav are some of the schemes and projects that would be discussed back home for implementation, said the Dy CM.
A visibly impressed Modi informed press after the presentations that they had already started the system of chintan shibirs for Bihar ministers and top bureaucrats from this year.
“We are on a learning spree under which I have been to Haryana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Delhi observing their best practices. We would implement those that can be appropriately replicated in our state,” he said, adding that Bihar was not the same that Laloo Prasad Yadav had left a year and a half ago.
Removing misconceptions of some in Gujarat establishment— it was just a fortnight ago that Gujarat ministers were repeating ad nauseum in the State Assembly that the State would not become Bihar— Sushil Kumar Modi said that Bihar was a changed state with the law and order firmly in control.
“The difference is that while earlier the police slept, the administration now acts with results coming in less than 48 hours. Traders and professionals are not migrating and we are looking at putting Bihar firmly on the development track,” he added.
Recounting some of the achievements as models to be followed by rest of the country, he said 50 per cent reservation of women in panchayats and urban local bodies, recruitment of ex-armymen directly into police forces, and implementation of the RTI Act over telephone were some of the steps that could be replicated by other states.

1 comments:

Ravi Ranjan/Rupesh said...

post should be in hindi