Centre will train 20,000 Jammu amp; Kashmir Govt officials in grievance redressal and the task will be undertaken by the Department of Administrative Reforms, Union Ministry of Personnel.This was announced here today by Union Minister of State IC Ministry of Science and Technology; Minister of State IC Ministry of Earth Science; MoS of Prime Minister s Office and Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances amp; Pensions, while inaugurating a two day Regional Conference on the theme Bringing Citizens and Government Closer Through Administrative Reforms at SKICC Srinagar.The Regional Conference is being organized by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances DARPG , GoI in collaboration with UT of Jammu amp; Kashmir. The conference is being held in the backdrop of replication of good governance practices in Union Territory of J amp;K. 16 PM Awardees presented their innovations in the 2 day event.Dr Jitendra Singh said, Jammu and Kashmir became the first UT in the country to have Good Governance Index and was also first to launch nbsp;District Good Governance Index for 20 Districts of the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir in January this year.
He said, the Index represented 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.Dr Jitendra Singh said that governance reforms must be taken to next level and he proposed the idea of Aspirational Blocks on the lines of Aspirational Districts based on 41 scientifically evolved indices and aimed at bringing districts lagging in certain parameters at par with the best performing districts.Dr. Jitendra Singh said that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi has accorded the top priority in bringing the overall development in J amp;K UT. Prime Minister s objective scientific approach even in designing, structuring and planning in administrative reforms has worked to a great benefit as it is based on very objective parameters, he said. Citing examples of Baramulla and Kupwara being under the Aspirational District Program ADP he lauded the Central Government s such initiative which he called dynamic in approach based on real time evaluation.