Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, Apr 24: Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) of the Ministry of Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh today visited Loknayak Bhawan offices of Department of Personnel & Training (DoPT), Department of Pensions & Pensioners’ Welfare and Department of Space, and interacted with the employees there. This was a surprise visit paid by the Minister to personally understand various grass-root functional aspects of these departments.
During his visit, Dr Jitendra Singh met the officials working in the departments and interacted with them regarding their working conditions and difficulties, if any, faced by them. He conducted an inspection of the offices and also supervised the Swachhta/cleanliness status of these departments.While going from seat to seat, he interacted with the entire staff of all the three departments. These visits help in keeping the morale of employees high and also motivate them, he said.
Thereafter, Dr Jitendra Singh conducted a joint meeting of all the officers in which welfare activities of employees, cadre management activities of 19,000 officers of CSS, SSCS and CSSS as well as welfare activities pertaining to Central Government Pensioners were discussed. The Minister also visited the DoPPW NIC centre which manages the Pensioners’ portal and all the online activities of the Pensions Department such as CPENGRAMS, Sankalp, Anubhav, Bhavishya and Mobile App. The Minister appreciated the online processing of Pension settlement on Bhavishya. The Minister appreciated the Department’s initiative of Pension Adalats considering the fact that the number of Pensioners now exceed the number of working staff.
While briefing him, Joint Secretary, Pensions informed the Minister that there was an abandoned store-house on the ground floor outside the building which had been lying in a dilapidated state from several years. The same is being renovated and shortly would be used as a facilitation centre for Pensioners as well as a convention centre for small activities of the Department of Pensions.
Dr Jitendra Singh suggested to the officers of DoPT that it might be a good idea to have some institutionalized mechanism from the department’s side for carrying out personal outdoor obligations of officers and staff so that they can give their maximum time to sit in office and attend to their work.
After the visit, Dr Jitendra Singh said that the purpose of his visit was to understand the ground working conditions of the employees working in various departments located here. He said that DoPT is an important department of Government of India and performs various important functions including cadre management and meeting training requirements.
The Minister also visited the Department of Space Branch Secretariat located in Lok Nayak Bhawan. It also has a liaison unit for ISRO which represents the DoS ISRO Headquarters at Bangalore.
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