CEDTI organizes IT seminar
Aurangabad center of the Center for Electronics Design and Technology of
India (CEDTI) organized a IT seminar in association with Digital Maintenance
Services, its franchisee. Addressing the audience, Dr Vinod Valivdekar,
Director, CEDTI said that the seminar was aimed at propagating the message of IT
in the state of MP and Chhattisgarh. The seminar also aimed at providing
solutions to the problems faced by this industry in the state and worked nearly
towards getting out ways to generate more employment. Speaking on the occasion,
GS Bedi, CFS Project Head said that CEDTI would award recognition to 500 new
centers by March 2002 and which would then provide the training facility for
some 15,000 people. CEDTI has designed various IT-related training courses for
Intermediary students and certificate courses for Metric students.
IT must for transparent and fair working
PK Mehrotra, Chief Secretary, Government of MP recently reviewed the progress
of numerous development works in the state at a meeting of all Divisional
Commissioners and senior Secretaries at the Mantralaya. He opined that like
Mantralaya, an information room should be set up at the entrances of
Commissioner’s and Collector offices. These rooms should be computerized and
the petitioners informed of the progress in their cases. He asked the
Commissioners to use computers extensively for exchange of information. Mehrotra
asked the commissioners to take initiatives to increase revenue and to ensure
that all Nuzul record, Khasra, maps are fed in the computer in tehsil offices
and the entire records should be updated every month. Mehrotra said that the
best use of computers should be made. He said that a 15-day computer-training
program should be conducted for the Patwaris. Patwaris of all tehsils should be
imparted computer training by the end of September 2001.
CM high on grievances re-dressal
CM Digvijay Singh has directed for use of IT in the grievances re-dressal
system currently in vogue in the state to make it more effective. The CM said
that a department has been created for this purpose. Arrangements should be made
for anyone to lodge a complaint and get information of the action taken online.
He directed the Chief Secretary to pay special attention to departments where a
comparatively higher number of complaints were pending. He directed for prompt
action in setting up a grievance re-dressal cell in each district of the state
and every department. Competent and interested officers should be posted in
these cells. He called for the personal attention of state ministers in district
and departmental-level reviewing and also laid stress on the constant inspection
of the progress of grievance re-dressals.
Critique eyes on MP-STEP
The management structure of the Madhya Pradesh Science and Technology
Entrepreneurs Park (MP-STEP) shall soon be reviewed. The decision was taken at a
meeting of the Board of Governors for MP-STEP held recently. The review is being
viewed as a precursor to a possible overhaul of the organization that has been
embroiled in controversies of late. The meeting discussed the perennial problem
of poor power supply to the said park. It was decided to arrange for the supply
via the power line of the Maulana Azad College of Technology, as this building
is a part of the college campus. The bill for the power consumed would be shared
by both according to their respective consumption. Besides, discussions were
held on the proposed franchisee scheme of the organization. The Board of
Governors decided to maintain a database of entrepreneurs trained at the park.