Home Minister Amit Shah To Release Good Governance Index Of J&K’s 20 Districts
Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will also address the event.
New Delhi: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will release the Good Governance Index for 20 districts of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday.
With this move, Jammu and Kashmir will become the first Union Territory in the country to have Good Governance Index, ANI reported.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Jammu and Kashmir Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha will also address the event.
The Planning Secretaries and the Secretaries of Administrative Reforms of all state and Union Territories’ governments besides the District Collectors of non-election bound states have also been invited to participate in the event via video conferencing.
A presentation on the formulation of the district Good Governance Index will be made by the Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad, during the event.
This will be followed by district presentations by selected 12 District Development Commissioners, who will be showcasing the achievements of various sectors.
A panel discussion will thereafter be held on DGGI- A Way Forward for futuristic 2.0 version of DGGI for measuring and benchmarking performance and improvement of the districts in future as well.
The DARPG prepared the District Good Governance Index of Jammu and Kashmir in collaboration with the Jammu and Kashmir government.
This was prepared in pursuance of the announcements made in the “Behtar e-Hukumat - Kashmir Aelamia” resolution adopted earlier on July 2, 2021, in the Regional Conference on Replication of Good Governance Practices held in Srinagar.
The exercise on the formulation of the District Good Governance Index was set in motion in July 2021.
The Jammu and Kashmir government’s District Good Governance Index represents a major administrative reform in benchmarking good governance at the district level and a significant step for timely collation and publication of statistics at the state/ district level.
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