UP chief minister Mayawati is getting all set to revert to her old self and crack the whip.
From Tuesday onwards, the chief minister will be embarking on an inspection drive in various districts.
During these surprise “raids” in districts, she will assess the development level and the law and order situation and officers found lacking will, in all probability, be given marching orders. She will also interact with the local people and listen to their complaints.
“The chief minister had announced in November last year that she would start inspections from February 1 and had given two months’ time to officials to spruce up their performance. The chief minister is now in an unrelenting mood and she will not tolerate laxity on any front,” said a senior official in the chief minister’s secretariat.
Ms Mayawati, according to sources, has now realised that all is certainly not well in the state where assembly elections are barely a year away.
Allegations of corruption have been hounding developmental projects that are further marred by sub-standard work and on the law and order front, her ministers and legislators are on a law-breaking spree.
It is noteworthy that this will be the first time since she took over as chief minister in May 2007 that Ms Mayawati will be venturing out into the district for an on-the-spot assessment. She has, so far, depended mainly on her trusted bureaucrats for governance. The chief minister, according to sources, has been receiving complaints of high-handedness by bureaucrats, undue delay and pilferage in implementation of developmental projects and schemes, tardy progress in schemes announced by her and increase in atrocities on dalits.