CM completes phase-I of Sikkim Bhraman

GANGTOK, 25 May [IPR]: The first phase of the village-to-village tour of the Chief Minister and the State administration has been completed. The first phase of the proposed state-wide tour of he Chief Minister, which started from his home constituency of Poklok-Kamrang, has thus far covered the whole of Namchi Sub-Division and parts of Rabong Sub-Division in South Sikkim. The six days of travelling traversed over 700 kilometers covering over 24 Gram Panchayat Units consisting of 139 Gram Panchayat Wards.
During his tour, the Chief Minister interacted with the people and took first-hand view of the schemes and programmes of the government. While the CM took all the important messages of the State’s flagship programmes like CATCH program in Health sector, the Organic Mission, Green Mission, Tourism Mission, Kutcha House Free State Programme, Poverty Free Mission to the people, he stressed on the importance of taking on responsibility at all levels, productivity, self reliance and quality in delivery and projects implementation.
The touring entourage consisted of a team of heads of departments led by the Additional Chief Secretary.
It is reported that many of the Secretaries were appreciative of the Chief Minister’s initiative and felt that a first-hand engagement with the people at the grassroots level was very beneficial to them. The Heads of Departments have also gained from the experience of seeing for themselves the status of development projects and programmes at the ground level.

This experience is expected to lead to greater appreciation of the ground realities and put government decision-making in the fast-track and make the government more responsive.
The second phase of the tour is expected to resume shortly.