8 GOs fail to ring in an end to lawmakers' complaints

We will act against violators under relevant rules, says U.P. assembly speaker

- Umesh Raghuvanshi

LUCKNOW: At least eight Government Orders (GOs) in the past four years, including one issued on Friday, have instructed senior officers to feed the contact numbers of public representatives, receive and respond to phone calls of MPs and legislators and always call back if busy in a meeting.

There, however, appears no let-up in complaints from the public representatives, who have continued to point out that the officers in districts are not taking their calls. Quoting the GOs issued since 2021, the state government in its order on Friday has asked all the divisional commissioners and district magistrates to ensure that the instructions about the phone calls from the public representatives are followed or else "disciplinary action" will be taken against them.