Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated that the Assam Government is mulling a massive overhaul of the administration and making districts as administrative and economic units.
Assam Government Mulling Massive Overhaul
The Chief Minister held a preparatory meeting on April 26 for the forthcoming three-day Deputy Commissioner’s (DCs) conference slated to be held from May 12 to 14 in Tinsukia.
”Unlike the traditional and conventional way of functioning, the DCs will henceforth focus on improving the GDP of his respective districts, GST generation, raising of per capita income, power consumption, industrial activity, agricultural diversification, creation of industrial landbank,” the Chief Minister said.
”As per the directive of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to the chief secretaries, the district has to become the focal point of administration. The DCs have to act as chief secretary of their respective districts with the state only facilitating it. It will be a model of decentralisation of powers to the district administrative level,” he said further.
”If a state has to forge ahead, then the districts must also have to pitch in equally to contribute to its overall growth and development. That is why the district has to be an administrative and economic unit,” he continued.