Is UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav losing grip over the bureaucracy? So it seems if one believes the disclosures made through a RTI response on an application field by a Lucknow resident Urvashi Sharma.
Ms Urvashi Sharma has filed an application under the RTI, wanting to know what action had been taken on complaints received by the chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s office between March and October 2012 and also the action taken during the first six month when Ms Mayawati was in power.
The response that Ms Urvashi Sharma has received shows that nearly 60.96 per cent of complaints were attended to in the Mayawati regime but in the Akhilesh regime, the percentage of complaints attended to is merely 4.18. According to official figures, a tot-al of 79,086 complaints were received in the Mayawati regime betw-een 13 May 2007 and 17 November 2009. About 48, 217 complaints were attended to by the officers. In the Akhilesh regime, 94,773 comlaints have been rece-ived between March 15 and October 3.
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‘New leadership to give India importance’
Phnom Penh, Nov. 19: The new Chinese leadership will give great importance to relations with India, outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today as the two appreciated working with each other over the last eight years, in what was most likely their last meeting.
Mr Wen, who met Mr Singh for a 15th time on Monday in eight years, said he has had a “memorable experience” of working with him. Mr Singh reciprocated by saying he too valued the experience of working with Mr Wen.
Mr Wen also conveyed to PM Singh that this would be possibly their last meeting as he would be demitting office in March as part of change of guard in Beijing. In his opening remarks at their meeting on the sidelines of Asean summit here, Mr Wen said he cherished working with Mr Singh. “We established good working relationship and friendship between us. This is reflection of friendship between our two great nations,” he said. Manm-ohan Singh hailed Mr Wen’s personal endeavour to make the bilateral relationship stronger. — PTI