Shillong, Nov 29: Meghalaya chief minister Mukul Sangma said that it is important for the government to make more ‘investment’ in up-scaling its machineries for making ‘governance’ more effective even as he asserted that there will be no space for ‘corruption’ in the system.
Sangma said, “The issue of governance needs to be address as it is the key to progress and growth of the state while taking note that corruption is the most crucial issue.”
Addressing the gathering at the ‘induction training for the Meghalaya Civil Service (MCS) probationers of 2012 batch’ which was conducted by the Meghalaya Administrative Training Institute (MATI) under its director D Vijay Kumat Thursday, Sangma said, “We are looking at opportunities to up-scale the knowledge and skills of the officers which are part of governance system.”
Sangma underline the need to invest in enhancing the knowledge and skills of the officers which he said is an important component for ensuring “effective governance.” He informed that the government has decided to constitute ‘Institute of Governance’ along with MATI to enrich the officers which will go a long way in addressing the core issue of governance.
Sangma, however, said, “This will only happen if all concerns jointly share this objective and responsibility for ensuring transparency in governance.”
Saying that there will be no room for corruption, Sangma asked the officers to be aware, alert and remember that every action that they resort to while serving the people and the state are being subjected to scrutiny by the vigilant civil societies.
Congratulating the successful officers, Sangma said, “You have occupied a special space to serve the people and to live up to their expectations.”
Meghalaya chief secretary WMS Pariat, who also grace the occasion as guest of honour, stressed the need to develop good public relation adding that officers should not be happy with the present but should always aimed higher and make it better.
Pariat said, “Even though theory taught in training is one part, but important characteristic is to apply common sense while doing the job.”
Altogether, twenty nine officers of the 2012 batch have successfully completed the 6 months training provided by MATI which started on May 10 this year.
Later, certificates and prizes to the successful officers were distributed by the Chief Minister at the function.- By Our Reporter
These are 2010 candidates…..who were left out in the waiting list as the then corrupt MPSC Members succumbed to political pressure and pushed in more candidates than the posts vacant….Abuse of Power at its best and that is why most ‘MCS’ are so politically swayed that they will even call a kettle white…