Narendra Modi to reach out to govt
employees' on Independence Day
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
asked for an exhaustive Central database of all Central and state government
employees. The creation of the database, which will have the phone numbers and
email addresses of all employees, is already underway, and will be first used
on Independence Day when Modi's speech is directly sent to the employees by
mail and messages.
The prime minister would like his
maiden speech from the Red Fort to be directly communicated to one crore
government employees, such as school teachers, village sarpanches, healthcare
workers etc, in the farthest corners of the country. Most of these are not
tech-savvy, Internet users and so frenetic efforts are under way to implement
Modi's intent, said government sources.
The government has therefore
initiated the process of creating the first-ever countrywide database of
central and state government employees and stakeholders. Cabinet secretary Ajit
Seth is monitoring the creation of this database after clear instructions by PM
Modi. Seth has been meeting officials from all ministries two times every week
to monitor the progress.
The National Informatics Centre has
created a new portal sampark.nic.in for the purpose. All states, through their
districts and block level offices, have been directed to update their data on
this website. "The ministries are also coordinating with their state
counterparts to compile this data in a time bound manner," said an
official.
The National Informatics Centre has
so far collected information of 50 lakh teachers, 30 lakh sarpanches, 10 lakh health
care workers and two lakh corporators. The prime minister is likely to use the
data to connect with all these employees and stakeholders through social media
platforms, much as he had done to connect with voters during the 2014 general
election campaign, said an insider.
"He intends to do the same now
with government employees. It is an exercise to build a bond," the
official said.
