The Central Public Works Department on August 10 asked its regional offices to pay “special attention” to pending complaints from “VIPs”, including Union Ministers and MPs, with requests for transfer of engineers being the most common reference.
In an office memorandum to all regional offices, the chief engineer for the CPWD’s parliamentary matters cell requested that “special attention may please be given to these cases and reply/action taken report may be submitted at the earliest”.
The government had started a special campaign in October 2021 to dispose of MP references, assurances in Parliament and public grievances. The Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions had on June 15 asked the ministries that had less than 35% disposal rate of references in the identified categories to act on them. The CPWD had 42 “MP references” pending, a letter by the Housing and Urban Affairs Ministry to the CPWD on August 5 said.
