New Delhi, Jan 21: Union Home and Cooperation Minister Shri Amit Shah will release the District Good Governance Index for 20 Districts of UT of Jammu and Kashmir tomorrow organized jointly by Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), GOI and Jammu & Kashmir Institute of Management, Public Administration & Rural Development in association with the Centre for Good Governance, Hyderabad.
Manoj Sinha, Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir and Union Minister for Personnel will also address the event.
The District Good Governance Index of Jammu Kashmir was prepared by DARPG in collaboration with Jammu Kashmir Administration in pursuance of the announcements made in the “Behtar e-Hukumat – Kashmir Aelamia” resolution adopted on July 2, 2021 in the Regional Conference on Replication of Good Governance Practices held at Srinagar. The exercise on formulation of District Good Governance Index was set in motion in July, 2021 which has now been completed and Jammu Kashmir will become the first Union Territory in the country to have Good Governance Index.
The Chief Secretary, Jammu Kashmir, Arun Kumar Mehta and V. Srinivas, Secretary DARPG, Government of India will also be addressing the event. The event will be attended by Senior Officials of Government of Jammu Kashmir, District Collectors and Chief Planning Officers of Districts.
The District Good Governance Index of Government of Jammu and Kashmir represents a major administrative reform in benchmarking good governance at District level and a significant step for timely collation and publication of statistics at State/ District level. The District Good Governance Index is a milestone and it is expected that it will provide a robust framework for evidence based assessment of the performance of all the districts in Jammu & Kashmir.(PIB)
