Lok Sabha polls: Govt to hold chief secy meet, push states on beneficiary schemes, service delivery
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The third National Chief Secretaries' Conference, scheduled to be held on December 27-28 in New Delhi, will mull the overarching theme of 'Promoting Ease of the Living' across five key social aspects — schooling, drinking water, electricity, health and wellness and land & property.
To be chaired by PM Narendra Modi, the conference will be pushing for better schemes and service delivery in both urban and rural areas, with the help of technology and good governance tools.
The theme of the conference, the second one in 2023, is also quite in tune with the ruling NDA government's focus on beneficiaries of its flagship schemes or the 'labharthis' who have emerged as a unique socio-political constituency for the current dispensation.
The steadfast focus on the 'labharthis' is also, in fact, being borne out in the ongoing Viksit Bharat Sankalp yatra wherein government servants have been deployed to take the message of central government beneficiary schemes and its achievements across states.
In the case of the new 'Ease of Living' focus, over 5,000 officials from across state governments and the Centre have already been engaged in the exercise, holding several workshops on the five sub-themes to states and sending details of success stories and feedback.
Ease of Living
In a September 16 meeting chaired by the Cabinet secretary, state governments were told that the overarching theme for the conference 'Ease of Living' is to focus on two facets — access to schemes «especially individual beneficiary schemes» and «ensuring the quality of service delivery».
For individual beneficiary schemes, simplification and
