Civil Aviation Ministry has disposed of over 9,100 old files and removed more than 15 truck loads of junk from its headquarters as part of a special drive.
At the instance of the Prime Minister's Office, "a special drive was undertaken to weed out the old files and records ... 12,977 files have been reviewed, 3,839 files have been recorded and 9,146 files have been weeded out," Civil Aviation Ministry Joint Secretary G Asok Kumar told reporters here.
No details were, however, available on the nature of files destroyed by the Ministry.
Modi government's cleanliness drive also saw 11,000 files of the Union Home Ministry being disposed of in July, a move which led to a row in Parliament with Opposition alleging that those destroyed included historic files.
Making a power-point presentation on the steps taken by the ministry in the first 100 days, Kumar said, "More than 15 trucks of malba (junk material) has been removed as part of the cleaning drive."
"To spruce up and improve the buildings and workplaces of the offices at the behest of Prime Minister, workplace managers at the level of Directors/Deputy Secretaries have been appointed to carry out inspection in the Ministry on a rotational basis every week," the officer said.
While DGCA had cancelled 156 regulations and circulars, the Bureau of Civil Aviation Security has also identified 160 circulars for repeal, Kumar said.
A bio-metric system for recording attendance of the staff has also been installed as a result of which "punctuality has improved considerably", he added.
