Hemant meets people at his home, listens to their concerns

People from across the state turned up at chief minister Hemant Soren’s official residence on Kanke Road on Thursday to seek his help and intervention in resolving some of their problems centred around pensions and availability of civic amenities.

Hemant, who has been busy chairing review meetings of various departments this week, met each visitor individually and listened to their concerns. Most of the problems shared by the visitors were related to electricity, water, road construction, anomalies in pension and schemes for providing shelter to the poor, officials from his office said.

“It is the government’s priority to improve civic amenities and basic facilities for the people of the state irrespective of whether they live in cities or villages. Since we were voted to power, we have been trying our level best to address public issues and focus on bridging the gap between the government and the people of the state,” said Hemant.

Each of the visitors handed over their concerns in writing directly to the chief minister who assured them of speedy redressal. Mostly women from Saraikela Kharsawan and families from far flung villages of Jharkhand visited the CM residence on Thursday, sources from the CMO said.

Some of the visitors also got small gifts for the CM, mostly mementos, which Hemant accepted with grace.

Hemant has been one of the most affable CMs in Jharkhand, say experts. Soon after being sworn-in, he won the hearts by his well-meaning gesture of asking for books instead of bouquets. And hardly a fortnight into his tenure at the helm, he started giving due attention to even the smallest of concerns raised by people engaging with officials on Twitter.