Dr Jitendra highlights major DoPT achievements of Modi Govt

Daily Excelsior: New Delhi: Thursday, 27 February 2020.

Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) Development of North Eastern Region (DoNER), MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space Dr Jitendra Singh today highlighted some of the major DoPT (Department of Personnel & Training), DARPG (Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances) and Department of Pensions achievements of Modi Governmemt 2.0, in its second term beginning from May 2019.

He was briefing the media after chairing a comprehensive review meeting of the Union Ministry of Personnel here.

Dr. Jitendra Singh referred to RTI Amendment Act, 2019, whereby RTI Act, 2005 was amended to provide enabling provisions of administrative nature for making rules regarding tenure and service conditions of the Chief Information Commissioner and Information Commissioners of the Central Information Commission as well as State Chief information Commissioner and State Information Commissioners of the State Information Commission. Consequently, the rules relating thereto were also notified on 24.10.2019 in the official gazette.

The process of selection and appointment of Chief Vigilance Commissioner and Chief Information Commissioner was accomplished successfully and orders of the appointment of new CVC and new CIC have been issued.

Making a departure from past practice, Common Foundation Course for all Civil Services Officers was started and Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with 425 officer trainees from 20 Servcies on 31.10.2019 at Kevadia, Gujarat.

Integrated Grievance Cell & Call Center was inaugurated on 20th June, 2019 for pensioners with the objective to provide easy access to pensioners in registering their grievances and getting resolution in speedy manner. This centres also working as pressure on the departments to resolve the problems of the elderly pensioners.

Dr Jitendra Singh also mentioned Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monit-oring System (CPGRAMS) constituted by DARPG. The new CPGRAMS reforms has been developed to ensure user friendly lodging of grievance by a citizen and enable a navigation of the grievance to reach the field office responsible for resolution of the same.

Regional Conferences were organized on specific themes in association with various State/ Union Territory Governments with a view to bring National and State level organizations along with other stakeholders including NGOs, intelligentsia, media etc. on the same platform to share experiences in the formulation and implementation of good governance practices.