Prime Minister to reach out to govt employees' on Independence Day: Creation of the database of phone numbers and email addresses of all employees
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.
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