Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal: In a remarkable administrative move, IAS officer Sanskriti Jain, Commissioner of Bhopal Municipal Corporation, has introduced a new “culture” of accountability. Taking strict action against negligence, she has assigned 75 assistant and sub-engineers to work as helpers to Booth Level Officers (BLOs) after they failed to provide satisfactory details about their official projects. Engineers Failed to Explain Their Own Work During a recent review meeting, Commissioner Jain questioned the engineers about ongoing civil works. Shockingly, most were unable to provide even basic information about their assignments. Annoyed by their lack of preparedness, she issued an unconventional punishment—deploying them to assist BLOs in the ongoing SIR digitisation work, effective until December ...

Bhopal: As the Mohan Yadav government in Madhya Pradesh enters its second anniversary on December 13, political temperatures have sharply risen following a blistering attack by Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee President Jeetu Patwari. The Chief Minister has begun a comprehensive review of his government’s two-year performance, calling all ministers to present detailed reports of their departments along with a three-year action plan. Despite the government highlighting its reforms and presenting selective review findings to the media, the opposition has not held back. Jeetu Patwari dismissed the review exercise as a mere “cosmetic audit,” questioning the credibility of a government-wide assessment without the Chief Minister first reviewing his own department. Patwari cited a central ...