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Tamil Nadu
By Our Special Correspondent
Addressing a conference of Collectors and police officers here, she said: ``We must continue to gather intelligence, keep up the pressure and not relax the tight regimen of security checks that has been put in place.'' While placing on record her appreciation of the Collectors and police officers in keeping at bay ``malevolent and pernicious forces'', Ms. Jayalalithaa warned that there was no room for complacency. ``The tendency of militants and terrorist groups, when pursued with firmness and relentlessness as we have done, is to go into hibernation or retreat to safer havens and then regroup, by a process of infiltration into new front organisations''. Referring to the recent incidents in Dharmapuri, where a number of naxalites were held, she said these were a pointer to the fact that extremism could rear its ugly head any time and manifest itself in individual and group violence without warning. "The pursuit of development goals would be a meaningless meander in a maze, unless the public order is maintained and the rule of law upheld.''
Stress on e-governance
Dwelling on the importance of good governance, the Chief Minister wanted information technology harnessed to provide efficient services to the people. "My emphasis on e-governance is to ensure that services are made available to the common man efficiently and quickly, with no transaction costs". Ms. Jayalalithaa said, "Good governance will be a pipe dream unless we crack down on corruption. I wish to emphasise to you in the strongest possible terms that this Government has totally set itself against corruption at all levels. People should perceive government departments as agencies meant for rendering service. The tendency of employees to act as an ingrown toenail has to be eschewed." For administration to move close to the people and for the people, democratic decentralisation and performance of several functions by local bodies should be strengthened, she said. Outlining the development agenda, the Chief Minister said the concerted effort by the Government had been to initiate major fiscal reforms as a means of consolidating the State's finances to enable it to embark on a meaningful development path. "The message that without necessary fiscal reforms the Government will not have the wherewithal to undertake a meaningful development agenda will have to be carried to all quarters''. Pointing out that the 15-point programme constituted a road map for the Government in the next three and a half years, she said the Collectors must set out micro plans under each of the points and work towards attaining the goals. Referring to the increasing use of throwaway plastics, she said all Collectors should launch a plan of action involving local bodies, non-governmental organisations and the public to have all wastes collected and disposed of in separate landfills. The drive should be completed before Pongal.
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