In an image building exercise ahead of the Assembly polls, Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati on Tuesday directed her top officials to work out a policy for effectively checking corruption in government schemes.

The chief minister directed cabinet secretary Shashank Shekhar Singh to apprise divisional commissioners (DCs) and district magistrates (DMs) of her instruction and ask them to effectively implement the order.

Singh who later held a meeting of commissioners and district magistrate asked them to oversee proper implementation of the UP Janhit Guarantee Law which entitles delivery of various public services, especially those concerning the weaker and poor sections within a specified period.

The cabinet secretary said officials should fix responsibility on those who fail to ensure implementation of the law and take action against them.

He directed the officials on field duty to remain present in their offices for hearing complaints of common people between 10 am and 12 noon on all week days and ask the complainants to put their mobile numbers on their complaints.

These complaints and steps to redress them would later be randomly checked through the phone numbers, he said asking all DMs to visit at least one village and SDMs five villages every week and organise open meetings so as to hear the grievances of villagers and dispose them.

Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh are due early next year.