New Delhi Apr 19 PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi will confer the awards for excellence in public administration-2021 for effective implementation of identified priority programmes and innovation to implementing units and central and state organisations on Thursday to mark the 15th Civil Services DayThe prime ministers awards for excellence in public administration have been instituted to recognise the extraordinary and innovative work done by districts and organisations of the central and state governments for peoples welfare a statement issued on Tuesday by the personnel ministry saidThe Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances DARPG under the Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions is organising a two-day civil services day function here on April 20-21 it saidMinister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh will be the chief guest at the inaugural function on WednesdayThe government celebrates April 21 every year as Civil Services Day as an occasion for civil servants to rededicate themselves to the cause of citizens and renew their commitments to public service and excellence in workIt is to commemorate the day when the first home minister of independent India Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel addressed probationary administrative services officers in 1947 at Metcalf House in DelhiPromoting Jan Bhagidari or peoples participation in the Poshan Abhiyan promoting excellence in sports and wellness through the Khelo India scheme and digital payments and good governance in the PM SVANidhi Yojana are among those that have been identified for the awardsBesides these holistic development through the One District One Product scheme seamless end-to-end delivery of services without human intervention and innovations have also been identified for the presentation of the awards on ThursdayTen awards for five identified priority programmes will be given this year while six awards will be given to organisations of the central and state governments and districts for innovations the statement saidSingh will also inaugurate an exhibition on the awarded initiatives of 2019 2020 and 2021 it saidThe inaugural session will be followed by two plenary sessions on the topic Vision India 2047-Governance chaired by Singh and the second plenary session will be on Atmanirbhar Bharat Focus on Exports chaired by Piyush Goyal Union Minister of Commerce and Industry the statement saidApart from this four breakaway sessions will be organised on subjects related to the PM Gati Shakti the Digital Payments and Good Governance through PM SVANidhi Yojna the One District One Product Scheme and the Aspirational District Program- Saturation it said Nitin Gadkari Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways will chair the session on PM Gati Shakti Hardeep Singh Puri Union Minister for Housing and Urban Development will chair the session on Digital Payments and Good Governance through PMSVANidhi Yojana while G C Chaturvedi chairman ICICI will chair the session on Digital Payments and Good Governance through PM SVANidhi Yojana Amitabh Kant CEO NITI Ayog will chair the session on One District One Product scheme and Rajiv Kumar Vice Chairman NITI Aayog will chair the session on Aspirational District Program the statement saidDuring the awards on April 21 Prime Minister Modi will release e-books on priority programmes and on innovations comprising of the successes stories on the implementation if the identified priority programmes and innovations A film on the award winning initiatives will also be screened before the presentation of awards Senior officials such as secretaries additional secretaries joint secretaries chief secretaries heads of central training institutions will be joining the event physically while PCCFs DGPs Additional DGPs academic institutions assistant secretaries from 2014-2017 and district collectors will join the event virtually it saidThe two-day event is expected to witness more than 2500 participants the statement said PTI AKV AKV ANB ANB

New Delhi Dec 18 PTI The Centre will launch a nation-wide campaign on Monday for redressal of public grievances and improvising service delivery especially in rural areas as part of good governance weekA series of programmes are planned by the Ministry of Personnel Public Grievances and Pensions during the week to be observed during December 20-25There will be a launch of nation-wide campaign for redrssal of public grievances and improvising service delivery titled prashasan gaon ki aur on Monday besides the inauguration of exhibition on good governance practices said the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances DARPG under the ministryMinister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh will inaugurate the campaign on Monday The good governance week will start from Monday A series of programmes are planned highlight various good governance initiatives taken by the Centre during the week The main theme of the campaign is to take good governance to the rural areas he said Programmes on good governance in the Ministry of External Affairs all missionsposts to participate in virtual conference ease of living and next phase of reforms for reducing compliance burden a workshop on Mission Karmayogi and experience sharing workshop by DARPG on best practices initiatives for increasing efficiency in decision making would be organised during the week the DARPG saidThe week will conclude with the celebration of good governance day at Vigyan Bhawan here on December 25 it saidDecember 25th is celebrated as the good governance day to mark the birth anniversary of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee PTI AKV AKV TIR TIR