In two months span, Delhi Government has received a sizeable number of documents pertaining to different schemes under its flagship Doorstep Delivery (DSD) scheme. Importantly, the Government of National Capital Territory of Delhi (GNCTD) is mulling to add 30 more services into its ambit.
According to Delhi Government's official database, the total number of 15,621 documents have been received till date. It may be recalled that the Delhi Government on September 10 of this year, had launched DSD to ensure to end the nexus of touts to earn money from people by being mediator. During the initial days of DSD launched, the total number of calls connected was 71,637.
Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal had directed that no case submitted by the 'Mobile Sahayaks' to any of the departments be rejected by the department without the approval of the Minister-in-charge.
"The present Government feels that various cases are rejected at the lower levels on the pretext of one or the other 'discrepancy' in the application for the purpose of taking bribe in lieu of getting the job done or getting the case/application approved," the Delhi Government statement quoted.
Kejriwal also directed that time limits prescribed for the delivery of the services under the scheme must be adhered to in totality and strictly. Rthe Chief Minister had also made it clear that no violation of time limits would be tolerated at any cost. The Government feels that some corrupt officials delay a particular application or request intentionally to force the applicant to pay in lieu of getting the job done quickly.