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Administrative reforms well on course, says official

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Group of Ministers to give directions on the course of action
Commission has identified 20 missions for
e-governance

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The second Administrative Reforms Commission appointed by the Union government two-and-a-half years ago is due to submit all its reports by March this year, the Cabinet Secretary to the Union government K.M. Chandrasekhar has said.

At a press conference after addressing the valedictory session of a two-day conference on ‘Excellence in Public Service Delivery’ here on Friday, Mr. Chandrasekhar said the commission’s proposals would be discussed with the Secretaries and top officials of the departments concerned to decide which all proposals could be implemented. A group of Ministers would then take up the matter and give directions on the course of action to be adopted for implementing the proposals. He said that the commission had identified 20 missions in the area of introducing e-governance. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (AR & PG) was working out the strategy for introducing of e-governance in a time-bound manner at all possible levels of administration. Administrative reforms would address the issue of ensuring greater integration between various departments of the Union government, between the Union government and the State governments and among the departments of the State government.

He said that, over the last few years, there had been a great deal of improvement in the efficiency of service delivery to the people. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was of the view that major problems such as poverty and corruption in government were related to the way in which the administrative system worked at present, he said.

The Right to Information Act, intended to ensure a higher level of transparency in government, had contributed much in making this change possible, he said.

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