Leh: The Advisor UT Ladakh, Umang Narula chaired a meeting of the
Administrative Secretaries to review the progress of various administrative
matters and developmental works.
Various issues were discussed, including the release of funds by the
departments; status of utilization certificates under Centrally Sponsored
schemes and action plans for the current year; monitoring and third-party
evaluation of projects; identification of deliverables for each department by
every Administrative Secretary; follow up action on issues discussed in Chief
Secretaries Conference, especially on Agriculture, National Education Policy,
and Urban Development sectors; status of Gati Shakti; onboarding on IGOT
Karamyogi digital platform, and preparations for Har Ghar Tiranga.
Advisor Umang Narula shared the deliberations including action points
which had emerged at the recently held Chief Secretaries Conference presided by
the Hon’ble Prime Minister in Dharamshala. He emphasized the importance of the
PM Gati Shakti scheme which aims to leverage technology extensively including
spatial planning tools with ISRO (Indian Space Research Organisation) imagery
developed by BiSAG-N (Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications
and Geoinformatics).
Advisor Narula urged all the departments of the Ladakh Administration
to utilize the decision-making tools available under Gati Shakti as this would
help increase coordination between the different departments for activities
like laying of underground cables, construction of roads, bridges, setting up
of mobile towers, etc, and will lead to holistic planning for stakeholders of
infrastructure projects.
A list of suggested layers to be uploaded on the software-based
geospatial data was also discussed including, land revenue records, forests,
ASI sites, Wildlife, Canal, Tourism sites, roads, eco-sensitive zones, water
resources, among others.
The Principal Secretary, Revenue and Planning, Dr. Pawan Kotwal
apprised the meeting about the training programme of officers from the Ladakh
Administration at the BiSAG-N, Ahmadabad in the areas of software development,
remote sensing applications, Geo-informatics system, etc. in the upcoming
month.
A detailed discussion also took place on Mission Karmayogi- a national
programme for civil services capacity building. The programme aims at
“Comprehensive reform of the Capacity Building apparatus at the individual,
institutional and process levels for efficient public service delivery.”
In the meeting, it was shared that the Ladakh police is already
receiving training under Mission Karmayogi. Advisor Narula directed the
Administrative Secretaries for identification of officers in their respective
departments for training so that they become master trainers.
He also directed them to make a capacity-building training
calendar for their departments to work out the training needs for every
category of government employees. Every department should have a team dedicated
to capacity building, he added.
Further, Advisor Narula asked each department to create a knowledge and
resource repository to store information regarding the department at a single
location for easy access and improving efficiency. This would build
institutional memory in every department, he added.
Detailed discussions also took place on the preparations for ‘Har Ghar
Tiranga’. It was decided that school and college students, panchayats,
individuals, etc should be motivated to actively contribute and participate in
the week-long festivities. Further, iconic and important sites should be
identified for the hoisting of the Tri-colour.
The meeting was attended by Principal Secretary, Revenue and Planning,
Pawan Kotwal; Commissioner/Secretary, Rural Development Department, Saugat
Biswas; Commissioner/Secretary, Higher Education Department, Padma Angmo;
Secretary, Animal and Sheep Husbandry, Department, Ravinder Kumar; Secretary,
Tourism, Kacho Mehboob Khan; Secretary Law, Faiyaz Ahmed; OSD to the Advisor,
Mohd. Taqi and Assistant Director PD and MD.
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