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Five-year plans for all departments

Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI: Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit has instructed all secretaries and heads of departments to prepare a five-year action plan enumerating specific milestones and indicators to be achieved at the end of each year.

Delivering the annual address to the bureaucracy on Wednesday, Ms. Dikshit said all action plans must be finalised, consolidated and integrated within a month to optimise their potential. She called upon the officials to speed up development and adopt a result-oriented approach as the daunting task of hosting Commonwealth Games in 2010 lies ahead.

She referred to the recent victory of the Congress in the Assembly elections and said: “The people of Delhi have given a historic mandate to my government by electing it for the third time in succession. This mandate has to be honoured and calls for dedicated, planned, honest, technologically sound and sustained effort to deliver the required services through transparent and collaborative administration.”

As for the projects on the anvil, Ms. Dikshit said: “We have to work the extra mile to ensure that none of these projects remains unfinished at the time of the Games as the prestige of our nation and our city is at stake. All the agencies involved in the infrastructure development for the Games-related projects have to set up special monitoring mechanism to pre-empt any slip-up on the way.”

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