Navin Kumar Choudhary today assumed charge as Principal Secretary, Health and Medical Education Department.
Immediately after assuming charge, Principal Secretary took an introductory meeting of officers of the Health and Medical Education Department. He exhorted upon them to redouble their efforts towards initiating fundamental reforms besides streamlining the existing system.
The meeting was attended by Special Secretary, H&ME, Director Finance, H&ME, Additional Secretaries, Under Secretaries, OSD H&ME and other officers.
During the meeting, Navin Choudhary took brief from officers about their respective roles and functioning of the department. He was given section wise briefing of different works and was presented in depth details about the functioning of various units of the department.
The important agenda points discussed during the meeting were human resource management, revenue budget, staff strength of the department, physical infrastructure, recruitment, stock of legal cases, DPCs, transfer and postings besides other issues.
He also took brief from every officer about the pressing issues faced by the concerned section and sought suggestions from the officers to find ways and means to resolve those issues.
He directed the officers to resolve the issues of the employees and remain sensitive to the issues of the public.
He directed all the officers to ensure disposal of files within 24 hours of receiving the same on their table saying that the progress on this front will be reviewed on regular basis. He also sought consolidated report on recruitment in all wings of H&ME and was informed about the new posts that have been referred to PSC for recruitment.
He also directed the officers to prepare full inventory of all the establishments in all district hospitals, PHCs, sub-centres and sought details on incomplete buildings and infrastructure.
Principal Secretary also directed the officers to take corrective measures to ensure that no unnecessary referrals are made from districts to tertiary care hospitals.