Civil Services Day: Collectors asked to give feedback on human capital management in government

THE department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) has been looking for feedback on one of the key discussions planned for this year’s Civil Services Day to be held in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan on April 20 and 21. The date of submission of comments and feedbacks on the topic — human capital management in government — was recently extended till April 7, 2017. And feedback can also be posted online. Recently, the DARPG asked collectors and district magistrates to submit their…

How and where to apply for PM’s Awards for Excellence next year; ...and what about the award on innovation?

THE government has given a clarification that organizations of Central or state governments and  districts are eligible for PM's Award for Innovations in environment conservation, disaster management, water conservation, energy, education and health, women and child centric initiatives etc., according to Para 3 (b) of the Award Scheme. And the process of applying for the awards will begin only on…

Mobile App: You can now use your smart phone to lodge and track complaints on GOI

IF YOU have any grievances against the Government of India and you have a smart phone with you, what you need to do now is just to touch the screen to lodge your complaint. Yes, you can use the new Mobile App for the Centralized Public Grievances Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) launched by the government on Wednesday. Thanks to the App’s features, the complainant will be able to track the status of the redress of his or her grievance. But the big question is whether the GOI is equipped to address the quantum of complaints that it may receive now. Since the last 12 months, as many as 9 lakh grievances have been lodged and only...

DARPG to engage a private consultant to measure impact, user satisfaction, scalability of good governance initiatives

NOW, a private consultant will help department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) to measure impact, utility, user satisfaction, sustainability, scalability and replicability of the Central government’s good-governance initiatives so far. The consultant is expected to undertake a critical review of the good governance initiatives and analyse both their tangible and intangible benefits. The private agency to be appointed initially for…

A fortnight after PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration were given, govt site carries names of 2013 winners

A FORTNIGHT after prime minister Narendra Modi gave away the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration, the department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG), the nodal government department handling the awards, has not uploaded the winners’ names and their achievements. Till the time of writing this article on Tuesday, the DARPG’s official website (http://darpg.gov.in/) is still carrying the PM’s Awards, 2013-14 in its “What’s New” section, raising questions how come…

New Delhi to host international symposium on public administration on Oct 7 and 8

IAS Probationers (File photo)

COME October 7 and 8, 2014, Indian bureaucrats will have interactive sessions in New Delhi with experts and civil servants belonging to 25 nations across the world. The topic of discussion is how to strengthen public administration and governance. Whether it is the performance framework reforms of UK, or Singapore’s promotion of budget management, or civil services reforms in Ghana or midwives…

DARPG to launch new publicity blitz with good governance films

THE Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), which has been  producing documentary films on good governance practices, wants to go for a publicity blitz. It is making additional 10,000 DVD prints of select films to spread the government's...

More grievances in vernacular languages? Govt is willing to engage translators

HIT by an ever growing number of grievances written in vernacular languages, the government has decided to create a panel of translators to decipher what are those, and who those are directed against. And the department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG) that has taken the lead in this regard, says it would allow government employees to get empanelled and earn some pocket money. But the payment is…

Govt asks bureaucrats to give new ideas on how to celebrate Civil Services Day

The award winners at CSD, 2013

THE government is looking for fresh ideas on how to celebrate the Civil Services Day next year. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), the nodal department that anchors the annual event, has formally asked for…