Chandy presents 100-day action plan

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Kerala Chief Minister Oommen Chandy Thursday presented a 100-day action

plan promising transparent, pro-poor and pro-development policies.In

an hour-long presentation at a public auditorium here, he said that as

the first step, all ministers, their family members, staff, top

government officials and department heads would declare their assets."My

office will start functioning 24X7 and the entire proceedings would be

webcast. Very soon, the offices of my cabinet ministers too would be

doing the same thing. Henceforth, all government tenders, their bids and

process of allocation of works would be available on the website the

day the tender is awarded," said Chandy."There are three lakh

people who are waiting to get their ration cards. Before the 100 days

end, all these cards will be given away. Likewise, there are 4.40 lakh

pending files in the state secretariat and in various departments. We

assure you that all files that do not have a legal tangle would be

cleared," he added.The entire cabinet was present when Chandy

made his presentation before the media, government officials and

legislators, besides invited public.