Excelsior Correspondent
NEW DELHI, June 4: 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, has initiated the move to simplify office procedures in Central Secretariat and other Secretariat offices.
In his capacity as the Minister In-Charge Personnel / DoPT / ARPG, Dr Jitendra Singh has underlined this move as a step forward to meet the requirements of digital age with freedom from red-tapism and carry forward the Modi Government’s commitment of “maximum governance, minimum government”, “citizen-centricity” and maximum transparency. He hoped that, as a follow up, the various State Governments will also adopt this approach in their respective State Secretariats.
Presiding over two successive meetings with the senior officers of DoPT (Department of Personnel & Training) and ARPG (Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances), Dr Jitendra Singh said, in the last five years, a number of path-breaking decisions were taken. These included abolition of interviews for lower level posts, ending the practice of getting the certificates attested by Gazetted Officers, amendment in the Prevention of Corruption Act 1988 to include the bribe-giver also in the purview of prosecution and doing away with nearly 1500 such rules and regulations which had over a period of time become obsolete or irrelevant.
He said, the next five years will witness a further and faster onward march in the same direction and simplification of the office procedures with the cutting-down of red-tapism and reducing the transit time from one table to the other through e-File will be extended to every level of governance. He also announced the publication of a comprehensively revamped Central Secretariat Mannual of Office Procedures 2019. In addition, the other priorities, he said, would include publication of India’s first-ever “National e-Services Delivery Assessment” document to serve as a benchmark assessment of the quality of e-services being provided in the country.
While the e-file system will be sought to be extended even to the affiliated and attached offices as well as subordinate offices, the various State Governments will also get involved with the publication of “Good Governance Index of States” covering 10 sectors and 50 indicators.
Union Secretary DoPT M. Chandramouli, Union Secretary ARPG K.V. Eapen and other senior officers in the various departments under the Ministry of Personnel were present in the two meetings.
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