Uttar Pradesh

• 01 Sep 2023

Development and Law & Order in the districts will now be reviewed separately

Why in News?

According to information received from the media on August 31, 2023, the evaluation, monitoring and review of law and order & development works in the districts of Uttar Pradesh will now be done at different levels. Chief Secretary Durga Shanker Mishra has issued guidelines to review law & order and development works.

Key Points:

• According to the information, the development work of government departments and officers of various levels in law & order will be reviewed on the basis of information available on the CM dashboard. The poor performing officers will be identified and their work will be improved.
• After the government order, the District Magistrates in 68 districts will review the law & order situation. At the same time, police commissioners in Lucknow, Kanpur, Varanasi, Agra, Noida, Prayagraj and Ghaziabad with the police commissioner system will review the law & order situation.
• The review of law & order and development works at the divisional level will now be different. Divisional-level meetings will be held within a period of one week of district-level review meetings.
• A review meeting of development works at the divisional level will be held under the chairmanship of the Divisional Commissioner. In the divisional headquarters where the police commissioner system is not applicable, the law & order meeting will also be held under the chairmanship of the divisional commissioner. The Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General and Police Captains of the districts located in the division will be present in the meeting.
• Additional Commissioner has been appointed as the Nodal Officer in the division for revenue and development work. The Deputy Inspector General of Police has been appointed as the nodal officer for law and order.
• Development work and law & order review will be different at the district level. The review of the development work will be done in the meeting to be held under the chairmanship of the District Magistrate. Instructions have been given to organize the meeting within a week of the publication of the ranking of the CM dashboard every month.
• The Chief Development Officer has been designated as the nodal officer of the CM Dashboard to review the development works at the district level. In districts where the police commissioner system is not in place, the law and order situation will be reviewed in the police line under the chairmanship of the district magistrate. All police stations including SSP, SP, ADM administration, ASP, DSP, and senior prosecution officers will be present in the meeting.
• In the districts where the police commissioner system is in place, including Lucknow, Varanasi, and Kanpur, the law & order situation will also be reviewed every month by the Principal Secretary Home and The Director General of Police.
• In the districts where the Police Commissioner system is implemented, the Police Commissioner will review the law & order situation. Additional Police Commissioner, Joint Police Commissioner, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Assistant Police Commissioner, Senior Prosecution Officer and all police station Incharges will be present in the meeting.
• The ranking will be released on the 15th of every month based on the implementation of services and schemes of various departments on the CM dashboard. The ranking will be based on performance index, data quality index and work done on flagship projects.
• In future, the coefficient obtained by the departments based on the ranking of district level officers on the CM dashboard will be used in merit-based online transfers.