Ministers meet IAS officers to orient them to state-specific

As part of a PMO initiative to orient newly inducted civil servants to state-specific issues, Union Ministers from Bihar today met 2004-batch IAS officers, who have got Bihar cadre or who hail from the state, and shared their views with them.
Union Ministers Ram Vilas Paswan, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Radha Mohan Singh, J P Nadda and Upendra Kushwaha met about 26 such officers. While Nadda is from Himachal Pradesh and represents it in the Rajya Sabha, he was born and studied in Bihar.
"This is a Prime Minister's Office initiative. The idea is that ministers from a particular state share their experience and views with young officers as they may find it helpful in discharging their duties," Paswan told PTI.

He told the officers, who have been serving in the national capital before they are posted in their cadre states, that people's expectations from the government have increased and due to connectivity provided by the social media, they want quick remedy to the issues raised by them.
"I asked them to develop rapport with the people they are serving," he said, adding he advised them to use "act (law), fact and tact" to help the citizens of the poor state.
Singh, sources said, told them to focus om implementation of schemes as he noted that some central schemes were not executed properly in the state.

The sources said similar meetings with officers linked to other states will also be organised.