By IANS,
Mumbai: The Maharashtra government Thursday started a Monitoring & Evaluation System (MES) to oversee the functioning of all its departments to make the administration more effective and accountable.
Chief Minister Ashok Chavan inaugurated the MES, inspired by a similar initiative launched by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the centre, here Thursday afternoon in the presence of top ministers and officials.
Chavan said that under MES, every state department would set its targets and objectives in the form of a vision document and take appropriate steps to achieve them.
“It is necessary that common people should benefit from the schemes for them by their proper implementation. For more effective implementation of the schemes by various departments, their proper monitoring and evaluation is also necessary,” said Chavan.
For the purpose, a special Delivery Monitoring Unit has been set up in the Chief Minister’s Office (CMO) that would help in speedy, active and responsible administration.
The success of MES would also help in creating basic infrastructure services, increasing employment opportunities and reducing poverty, Chavan said.
“Maharashtra, known as best state in the country, has accepted every challenge and this challenge of monitoring and evaluation will give succor to common man,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Minister of State for General Administration Fauziya Khan said that for reforms, there is a need to make administration ‘person oriented’ and the common man should be the focal point of administration.
“Every scheme should be formulated by keeping in mind the common man, and for this, every department has prepared a vision document,” she pointed out.