Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Nov 11: The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Government of India, is going to ask the Government of Jammu and Kashmir State for inclusion of more services under the ambit of J&K Public Service Guarantee Act and effective implementation of the same.
“Off course, we are going to ask the State Government for inclusion of more services under the Act and its effective implementation to ensure timely delivery of the services as well as adequate penalty to the defaulting officers,”said C Viswanath, Union Secretary, DARPG, while talking to the media persons on sidelines of two-day national workshop on `Public Service Delivery-Implementation of Rights to Service Act in States’, here today.
The two-day-workshop, which began today, has been organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India, in collaboration with the department of Public Policy and Public Administration (DPP& PA), Central University of Jammu (CUJ). More than 40 delegates, including State Secretaries and Directors from 20 States are participating in the programme.
C Viswanath said that effective implementation of the Public Service Guarantee Act and ample penalty to the defaulting officers was more important that just including more services under ambit of the Act, for which effective measures need to be taken by the respective States.
While elaborating on the workshop, he informed that focus of the two-day event is based on citizen centric governance through transparency and accountability. He also touched upon corruption, reform, perform and transform in the system of governance.
“The workshop, which is perhaps the first of its kind happened in the J&K, would enable the participants to share their experiences and best practices of how the public service delivery system works and the implementation strategies of the Right to Services Act,” C Viswanath said and added that the event will also derive important inputs for States, which may be considering the implementation of the “Right to Services Act” and also for the Central Government where a scheme on the subject is already under consideration.
Presently 20 States are implementing the Public Service Guarantee Act and in J&K, 17 services are so far included in its ambit.
The workshop includes presentations given by higher level Government officers and senior faculty from Administrative Training Institutes. It has been divided into different sessions and includes panel discussions and presentations by the participating States.
Professor Ashok Aima, Vice-chancellor of Central University of Jammu, who accompanied C Viswanath in the press conference, informed that MoS PMO, Personnel Public Grievances, Pension, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh would deliver valedictory address in the workshop tomorrow at 11.30 a.m.
Usha Sharma, Additional Secretary, DARPG, was also present in the press conference.
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