Uttarakhand: CM took a meeting of officials regarding revenue collection, gave instructions to the officials to work in a planned manner
All the departments should achieve the target that the departments have got for each month for revenue receipts, only then they will be able to achieve the annual target of revenue receipt. Departments need to do more work on online system to achieve revenue targets. Special attention should be paid to increase the revenue receipts from GST. For this, people should be encouraged to take the bill and awareness campaign should also be run on a wide scale. Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami gave these instructions to the officers while taking a meeting in the Secretariat regarding revenue collection.
The Chief Minister instructed the officers that work should be done in a planned manner to achieve the revenue targets. Departments need to pay special attention to transparency through modern technology for this. He said that all the departments should work in coordination for increasing the revenue. In areas where revenue is not being received as per the expectation, the reasons for this should be studied deeply and a suitable solution should be found. Special attention should be paid to capital expenditure. Attention should be paid in this direction to the departments which have to make recovery of the previous years in different areas. A strong online system should be created for revenue collection in the field of mining. Attention should be paid towards channelizing the storm water drains under the forest area by marking them. The Forest Department needs to work in a more planned manner in the direction of better utilization of forest resources. What innovations can be done for better utilization of forest resources, work should be done in this direction. Work should be done in the field of medicinal plants through Van Panchayats.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami said that UPCL and UJVNL need to increase their revenue in the energy sector. Effective efforts are needed to stop power theft completely. For this, more attention should be given to developing an information-based system. The Chief Minister said that the achievement of revenue targets would be reviewed every month.
Cabinet Minister Prem Chand Agarwal, Additional Chief Secretary Anand Bardhan, Principal Secretary R.K. Of. Sudhanshu, Chief Conservator of Forests Anoop Malik, Secretary R. Meenakshi Sundaram, Dilip Jawalkar, Arvind Singh Hyanki, Dr. Pankaj Kumar Pandey, H.C. Semwal, Vinod Raturi and concerned officers were present.
