Ministers fail to turn up at CM’s

RANCHI: The state ministers are failing to turn up at the janata durbar (public meet) called by chief minister Raghubar Das every Wednesday. Education minister Neera Yadav and food and civil supplies minister Saryu Rai were scheduled to attend the janata durbar on Wednesday. Both could not make it to the meeting. The ministers said they were pre-occupied. In place of Yadav and Rai, welfare minister Louis Marandi attended the janata durbar. Marandi had skipped it on August 19.“I have come from Bokaro to meet the education minister to raise some issues related to the education department. We are disappointed as the minister was absent from the meet,” said Kedar Nath Singh. Marandi told reporters, “We are part of the government and the issue will be sent to the department concerned.”“Ministers should be informed in advance... Some ministers are engaged in the official work and some have to go to New Delhi and other parts for official purpose,” said a personal assistant of a minister.