PM presents 12 awards to civil servants; more about the award-winning schemes

DC of Nizamabad Dr Yogita Rana, secretary, APMC, Nizamabad K Sangaiah

FROM solar initiative in Rajasthan’s Dungapur to creating a cashless village in Dantewada in Chhattisgarh, some of the district-level innovations were recognized at the Civil Services Day on Friday. Prime Minister Narendra Modi presented 12 awards — 10 under the five priority programmes and 2 under innovation category. Here below are the details of the PM’s award-winning schemes and innovations:

2,345 applications poured in for PM’s Award to be conferred on Civil Service Day, April 21

AN OVERWHELMING number of applications — 2,345 in total in two categories — have been received for PM’s Awards for excellence in public administration to be given on Civil Services Day-- April 21. Out of those 1,515 applications were received from about 600 districts across states and Union Territories under the priority programmes category, and another 830 applications were received from organizations of Central or state government/district under the innovation category.There will be a maximum of...

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…

10 districts receive PM’s Award; Gujarat, Maharashtra, MP, Punjab, Karnataka etc. draw a blank

Cab Sec PK Sinha, Addl Principal Secy to PM PK Mishra at the release

BIG Indian states, many of which are often considered progressive, have failed to make a mark in Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Implementation of Priority Programmes, presented by Prime Minister as a part of 10th Civil Services Day on Thursday. None of the districts from states such as Gujarat, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab or Karnataka could figure in the award list. In fact, out of the 10 districts which were presented this coveted PM’s Awards, two are from…

PM praises union secretaries for devoting 10,000 mandays on governance beyond office hours

10 of 677 districts selected for PM Awards 

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today praised the union secretaries, saying that they had devoted 10,000 mandays on key governance areas over and above their usual office hours. PM who addressed as many as 1,200 civil servants in New Delhi on the occasion of Civil Services Day referred to the recently constituted committees of secretaries on key areas of governance, adding that officers worked on these tasks voluntarily, after office hours and on holidays. He also said how those teams successfully broke silos and presented fresh ideas. Here are the key points of the PM’s speech at Vigyan Bhawan:

Civil Services Day function kicks off in New Delhi; bureaucrats to discuss how to replicate PM's Awards in states, districts

AS THIS article is being written, the two-day-long Civil Services Day function is about to begin in New Delhi’s Vigyan Bhawan. According to the schedule being lined up by the department of administrative reforms and public grievances (DARPG), the nodal department handling the function, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address the bureaucrats on April 21. Today (Wednesday), the key highlights include an address by railway minister Suresh Prabhu and a discussion on how to replicate the PM's awards in states or even districts. Here below are the programme details:

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…

Nominations invited for PM’s Awards to be presented next year; who qualifies?

AFTER the Prime Minister’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration, 2011-12 were presented last month where almost every award-winner belonged to IAS, a number of Group A service officers protested by writing anonymous letters to BoI. One wrote, “Why can’t Civil Services Day be called IAS Day?” Actually, the award is open to “officers of civil services from state, Central government including local bodies, panchayats and zilla parishads”, according to the advertisement…

Winners of Prime Minister’s Awards; who are those outstanding civil servants?

ON THE occasion of Civil Services Day on Sunday, principal secretary PM Pulok Chatterji released a book titled “Best Practices – Thinking Out of the Box”. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in his speech gave yet another twist to the debate when he said India’s rapid progress would depend on our ability to be innovative particularly in public administration. Here are a few innovative thought leaders in bureaucracy who clinched the...