HYDERABAD: Citizen Forum, Telangana president and retired IPS officer VK Singh called on Deputy Chief Minister Bhatti Vikramarka with a request to curb corruption in all departments.
Singh, who met the deputy CM along with other members of the forum A Narasimha, A Ashok Kumar and Sundeep Kottakki, suggested that basic amenities like health, education and others should be accorded utmost priority.
Singh later said that the deputy CM responded positively to their recommendations.
Citizen Forum is a civil society organisation comprising of eminent personalities of the state like IAS, IPS, IFS officers, doctors, engineers, businessmen and professionals, who focus on bringing basic problems of the people to the notice of the government.
The Forum in its representation to the deputy CM said the head of the departments (HoDs) should be made responsible for checking the corruption in their respective departments. Stating that the primary education was in a bad shape and the enrolment of students had been decreasing, it asked the government to focus on primary education.
The members suggested that quality should be improved in district hospitals and PHCs and adequate doctors and paramedical should be recruited. An officials from Police department or from any uniformed department should be posted as officer on special duty (OSD) in the Health department to run the administration of hospitals, they suggested.
The Forum also gave its suggestions good administration, legal issues and accessibility. “No bureaucrat is available to the public for reasons known to them. The accessibility of senior officers to the public should be ensured,” it added.