No WhatsApp For Babus, Said Puducherry Chief Minister. Kiran Bedi Just Nixed His Ban
Puducherry Lieutenant Governor Kiran Bedi said that social media should be used by government officials
Kiran Bedi, the Lieutenant Governor of Puducherry, has said that social media can and should be used by government officers to publicise and implement important schemes in Puducherry. To enable this, she has cancelled a ban declared earlier this week by Chief Minister V Narayanasamy on heads and members of government departments using Twitter, WhatsApp and Facebook for official purposes.Explaining her decision on Twitter, she posted, "If Puducherry has to be a progressive UT, it cannot be retrograde in communications.the Lieutenant Governor had said that the WhatsApp group she created was essential: "I dramatically improved our information sharing. Meeting notices, minutes of meetings, news clips, photographs, even shared short videos, travels and tour notes, and more. Now there was even a space created for shared achievements missing so far. Most of all ideating."
post on Twitter, she said, "Amazing how we choose to be retrograde. Some in position of power instead of using their position of influence to facilitate, do so to obstruct."Ms Bedi, who serves as the centre's representative, took charge of Puducherry in May last year. Her decision to over-rule the Chief Minster is likely to raise questions about whether she has encroached upon the government's turf - a complaint common for the Aam Admi Party government in Delhi.
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