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Laptop scheme for IAS officers

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Fifteen officers received them from the Chief Minister

NEW FACILITY: Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy receives a laptop from Chief Minister M.Karunanidhi in Chennai on Sunday. — Photo: S.R. Raghunathan

CHENNAI: Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on Sunday inaugurated the special scheme to distribute laptop computers to Indian Administrative Service (IAS) officers in the State as part of enhancing e-governance.

In the presence of his Cabinet colleagues, he handed over laptops to 15 IAS officers, including Chief Secretary L.K. Tripathy, Finance Secretary K. Gnanadesikan, Public Secretary S. Audiseshiah and Secretary (Information Technology) C. Chandramouli, at the Secretariat.

Under the scheme, laptop computers would be provided to 295 officers at a total cost of Rs.2.24 crore, as Government Secretaries, heads of departments and District Collectors had to handle vital issues even after office hours, an official release said.

As the officers could keep the laptop computers in their possession even after they were transferred, the situation in which they had to copy or delete files every time they were shifted to new posts would not arise, it pointed out.

Cabinet meeting

The Cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister discussed issues such as carrying out the massive democratic exercise of holding elections to the cooperatives at different levels after a gap of over ten years, official sources said.

Issues related to kuruvai crop cultivation in the delta against the backdrop of non-availability of adequate water for opening the Mettur dam on June 12 was also discussed, the sources said.

Certain issues in the industrial sector, particularly the Chennai airport expansion and the setting up of greenfield airport near Sriperumbudur, came up for discussion, the sources said.

Two review meetings preceded the Cabinet meeting — one related to the arrangements for cooperative elections and the other on measures to prevent chikungunya disease in border districts.

Presiding over the review meeting on cooperative elections, Minister for Cooperation Ko.Si. Mani reviewed the arrangements for the first phase of the poll for 7,348 primary cooperatives.

He asked the personnel concerned to ensure that preparatory works such as release of electoral rolls , announcement of poll schedule and publication of the handbook on the election work were fulfilled without any hassles.

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