New Delhi: Secretary Ministry of Road Transport & Highways (MoRTH) Alka Upadhyaya on Saturday held a high-level meeting in hybrid mode to review the progress of “Special Campaign 2.0”, which started on October 2 and will continue till October 31.
Upadhyaya spoke to officials concerned and directed them to take steps to dispose all pending MP references, PMO references, Public Grievances, Parliament Assurances, State Government references etc and ensure cleanliness of the office premises, toll plazas etc, in line with the spirit of the campaign, by target date October 31, 2022.
According to a press statement from the Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, as part of the “Special Campaign 2.0”, the Ministry has been carrying out various activities across the country – from disposing of pending files to maintaining cleanliness at field offices of MoRTH, NHAI, NHIDCL, IRC and IAHE. The Ministry is also taking special measures to ensure that the National Highway stretches are pothole-free, for the convenience of the highway users.
Under the campaign, till 29 October, 553 out of 694 MP references, 993 out of 1,049 Public Grievances, 12 out of 16 PMO references, 26 out of 28 State Government references have been disposed of while 7,060 physical files, which were identified for weeding, have been weeded out so far. Cleanliness campaigns have been carried out at 2,466 locations, which include toll plazas, Regional Offices & PIU/PMUs of MoRTH/NHAI/NHIDCL. The Ministry has earned Rs 7.07 lakh by disposing scrap during the campaign. As much as 1,936 sq ft space has been freed after the scraps were disposed.
Besides the Secretary, the review meeting was attended by Additional Secretary (Highways) Shri Amit Kumar Ghosh, JS (Coordination) and Nodal Officer Kamlesh Chaturvedi, JS (Media) S.P. Singh and other senior officials of MoRTH and NHAI. Field officers of MoRTH/NHAI/NHIDCL joined the review meeting through VC.