Taking a leaf out of PM Narendra Modi's book, Yogi Adityanath to have e-dashboard to track work

NEW DELHI: Are the anti-Romeo squads performing well in districts? How is the implementation of the PM Awas Yojana? The 75 districts across Uttar Pradesh will soon flash in red, yellow and green colours on an online dashboard as per their performance in 61 key schemes like these, and will be ranked on the same.

The Yogi Adityanath government in doing so is taking a cue from the eSamikSha dashboard set up by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) and Cabinet Secretariat for central schemes. Long-pending projects flash in red on the central dashboard monitored by the PM himself. 61 schemes and new initiatives have been identified for close monitoring of the similar kind through the new system being put in place in UP, with regular meetings to be held on the 7th, 10th and 15th of every month at the district, zonal and state level respectively to review the progress of all the 61 priority schemes, as per orders issued by the state chief secretary Rajeev Kumar. “This new process is being implemented so that people get proper benefit from the schemes,” Kumar’s September 7 orders say.

All districts in UP will be ranked on the dashboard as per their performance with districts below 50% performance level being displayed in red, between 50%-75% performance being displayed in Yellow and green colour for the better performing districts. UP has decided to monitor action in heinous crimes, crimes against women, crimes against SC/ST community, long-pending investigations, performance of anti-Romeo squads and ‘UP-100’ service, action against land grabbers and status of vaccination, ambulance service and availability of medicines. Various central schemes being implemented in UP, like PM Crop Insurance scheme, MGNREGA, PM Gram Sadak Yojana, rural electrification and Swachh Bharat will be monitored through the same and districts will be ranked.

Key central schemes which are dependent crucially on UP – like Nanami Gange – will also be monitored through the same dashboard. UP government departments will also be ranked by the same formula as per their performance in their respective schemes. To assess this performance, calls will be made from an existing ‘Mega Call Centre’ to beneficiaries asking them about their satisfaction with a particular benefit reaching them. Field surveys will also be done by nodal officers to confirm that the performance numbers cited by districts and departments are correct and not inflated, as per the Chief Secretary’s orders.