Chennai, June 15(BPNS)

Tamil Nadu Chief Minister ,M.K. Stalin conducted a meeting of the newly appointed district collectors at the Secretariat on Tuesday. In the meeting the Chief minister called upon the district collectors to take steps to prevent the spread of Covid -19 in their respective districts.

An official release from the Chief minister’s office said that Stalin has asked the newly appointed Collectors to focus on seven specific goals to be realized in the next ten years. He directed them to implement the Public Distribution System scrupulously and to ensure that genuine applicants are getting ration cards.

The Chief minister also advised the Collectors to fill up the vacancies in the district and asked them to act on Court orders and to implement the orders with immediate effect. MK Stalin also directed the newly appointed district collectors to act on petitions received by them and to help the people without taking any delay in disposing off the petitions.

Stalin also said that his government was not the one to issue orders and instead would listen to the opinions of the District collectors. The Chief Minister also called upon the collectors to be pro active in their respective districts and to stand up for the common man.

Collector designates who were in Chennai were present in the meeting which was also attended by the Chief Secretary Irai Anbu, Secretary of Municipal Administration, Shiv Das Meena, Commissioner of Revenue Administration, K Phaneendra Reddy. Other senior officials were also present.