Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
asked for an exhaustive Central database of all Central and state government
employees. The creation of the database, which will have the phone numbers and
email addresses of all employees, is already underway, and will be first used
on Independence Day when Modi's speech is directly sent to the employees by
mail and messages.
The prime minister would like his maiden speech from the Red Fort
to be directly communicated to one crore government employees, such as school
teachers, village sarpanches, healthcare workers etc, in the farthest corners
of the country. Most of these are not tech-savvy, Internet users and so
frenetic efforts are under way to implement Modi's intent, said government
sources.
The government has therefore initiated the process of creating the
first-ever countrywide database of central and state government employees and
stakeholders. Cabinet secretary Ajit Seth is monitoring the creation of this
database after clear instructions by PM Modi. Seth has been meeting officials
from all ministries two times every week to monitor the progress.
The National Informatics Centre has created a new portal
sampark.nic.in for the purpose. All states, through their districts and block
level offices, have been directed to update their data on this website.
"The ministries are also coordinating with their state counterparts to
compile this data in a time bound manner," said an official.
The National Informatics Centre has so far collected information
of 50 lakh teachers, 30 lakh sarpanches, 10 lakh health care workers and two
lakh corporators. The prime minister is likely to use the data to connect with
all these employees and stakeholders through social media platforms, much as he
had done to connect with voters during the 2014 general election campaign, said
an insider.
"He intends to do the same now with government employees. It
is an exercise to build a bond," the official said.
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