Errors with mala fide intent won’t be tolerated, Gujarat CM tells collectors & DDOs

NE NEWS SERVICE

AHMEDABAD, JUNE 28

Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani on Monday told collectors and district development officers that his government would not tolerate mistakes committed with mala fide intentions though bona fide errors while doing pro-people work would be pardoned.

Addressing collectors and DDOs through -conference, the first after a major bureaucratic reshuffle in the state some days ago, the CM said they should maximise the use of technology to bring more transparency in their work and fulfill the goal of good governance.

He said people’s expectations from the authorities had increased manifold in this era of technology as they are getting to know in a short time about good things happening across the world.

“My government will support you if you commit a bona fide mistake while doing pro-people work. But the government will not tolerate mistakes committed deliberately with mala fide intentions,” Rupani said in his address.

He also asked these officials to ensure maximum services are available online to reduce peoples’ hardships. Collectors were told by the CM to effectively implement laws like Gunda Act, those pertaining to land grabbing as well as the newly enacted one on fraudulent religious conversions by way of marriage and other inducements.