Chennai: Tamilnadu Chief Minister M K Stalin on Thursday launched the CM Dashboard monitoring system for his office.
An official release here said, understanding the need for real time information, proper monitoring, increased efficiency of government, cutting down delays and taking prompt decisions, Stalin had already directed a team to prepare dashboards that would achieve these requirements.
PWC Davidar (retired) Advisor, TNeGA, explained the key elements of the dashboard screens. The following dashboards were released in the first batch. This included water storage levels of all key reservoirs in the State and status of water availability as on date,. rainfall patterns, price mesh which monitors the price stability over 25 foodgrain/vegetable/ fruit products and provides for projecting possible increases in price and enables government to intervene, current employment trends to indicate the status of the economy, civil supplies dash board, Chief Minister Helpline and CM in your constituency providing the full information on status of petitions given and progress in resolution.
The dash board also included health related information in a comprehensive manner indicating various health matters being monitored by the Chief Minister, daily police report of major crimes in the State with reference to the districts that require more attention, progress of housing for the urban and rural poor, progress of water supply schemes particularly tap connections to all households.
Mention was made that this is only the first batch of dashboards and on a weekly basis more dashboards will be added and provided to enable the Chief Minister to have full knowledge and coordinative control of the
functioning of all departments. A video film was released to explain the purpose of the dashboards.