Bureaucrats get time slots to meet MLAs

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, October 9

Keeping in view the inaccessibility of senior bureaucrats to public representatives, especially MLAs, the government has asked all administrative secretaries to keep exclusive time slots for meeting them to redress their grievances.

Two-hour time slots on Tuesdays (3 pm to 5 pm) and Wednesdays (11 am to 1 pm) will be reserved for officers to meet public representatives, including legislators, according to an order of Chief Secretary Vijai Vardhan.

“It may be ensured that official meetings are scheduled in such a way that these are not held in these time slots and official tours may be avoided on these days,” read the order.

Many MLAs, especially of the BJP, had been quite vocal about the inaccessibility of bureaucrats since theformation of the BJP government in 2014.

With the Baroda byelection scheduled next month and the Opposition on the offensive on the issue of farm Acts, the decision seemed to be taken with a view to mollify legislators.