Making no effort to hide his displeasure over officials being unable to provide proper information on the progress of various projects and availability of grants, Labour Minister and district in-charge Santosh Lad has issued a warning that strict action will be taken, if they fail to ensure effective utilisation of funds.
Chairing a trimonthly review meeting of Karnataka Development Programme (KDP) in Dharwad on Wednesday, Mr. Lad took to task the officials who failed to ensure efficient utilisation of grants released for various government programmes.
“It appears that some of the officials come to the meeting to drink tea and coffee and are not serious about people’s issues. They do not have any statistics with them. Such a casual approach will invite strict action. If you do not change your attitude, you will be suspended in the next meeting,” he told them.
