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Lokesh makes use of Twitter to redress public grievances
By making the official Twitter account as grievance redressal platform, minister for IT and panchayat raj Nara Lokesh promises to address the problems of common man. Reacting to a tweet on Tuesday, he offered an unconditional apology to a user for not solving fluoride, on his Twitter.
Amaravati: By making the official Twitter account as grievance redressal platform, minister for IT and panchayat raj Nara Lokesh promises to address the problems of common man. Reacting to a tweet on Tuesday, he offered an unconditional apology to a user for not solving fluoride, on his Twitter.
Lokesh Nara stated, “My sincere apologies for missing out. Will look into this immediately. Thank you for bringing this to my notice”, while retweeting the tweet of Adi Narayana Reddy.
Adi Narayana Reddy of Nellore district, who was vexed after repeatedly bringing the issue to Lokesh through the twitter, said, “16th tweet sir. Please look in to mandal problem, not my personal problem sir”.
Adi Narayana Reddy further explained on his social media platform that, public at Varikuntapadu village in Udayagiri mandal in Nellore district have been suffering with the fluoride problem for more than three decades.
Seeing the failure of officials in addressing the fluoride problem in his village and his mandal, he observed that it was unfortunate when the entire country is developing rapidly, people have been suffering due to this problem. When The Hans India tried to contact Adinarayana Reddy over a phone number given by himself, it was not working at that time.
Reacting to another problem raised by Shridhar regarding poor quality of roads and damage to roads newly repaired roads within four months, Lokesh requested him to provide contact number for quick coordination. Shridhar provided the number and the issue is under consideration by the officials, informed Lokesh’s office.
Another tweet from Venkat Kuchipudi highlighted the problem of street lights at Marlapalem village, about 3 kms from Gannavaram in Krishna district. Venkat said that about half of the street lights are not working for the last one month and requested to solve this problem as early as possible. Reacting on it, Lokesh thanked him and stated that he will look into the problem.
Another netizen from Nellore district said for the last 30 years there was no proper road connection to his village. He explained that it was a hamlet under Kandulavaripalem village of Kaligiri mandal in Nellore district. Despite of bringing the issue to local tahsildar MLA and other leaders, they did not respond till date, he added. Reacting on it, Lokesh requested him to provide his contact number to quickly solve the problem. Madhu Dara claimed that he was a fan of Pawan Kalyan and Jana Sena party.
Nara Lokesh said that he has been encouraging the youth to bring their grievances to his notice by utilising the social media including Twitter and Facebook. Anyone in the state could bring the social problems in Panchayat Raj department through @naralokesh on Twitter, which is official account of the minister.
By Sambasiva Rao Madamanchi
