Centre Goes In for Third-Party Evaluation of Its 'Efficiency in Decision-Making' Reform
News 18To take stock of and conduct fair assessment of its campaign to increase efficiency in decision-making, the Centre has decided to go in for a “third-party evaluation and deeper study” of its administrative reform. “The government’s campaign for increasing efficiency in decision-making was adopted in all the ministries/departments of the Central Secretariat. “For taking stock of the progress made by ministries/departments, identifying success stories and the impact of these initiatives in Central Secretariat work, it has been decided to conduct a third party evaluation/deeper study of these initiatives undertaken by ministries/departments through DARPG’s knowledge partner, M/s Quality Council of India. Last year, Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions and Prime Minister’s Office Jitendra Singh had said that the Central Secretariat has adopted the initiative of increasing efficiency in decision-making in government wherein the channel of submission has been reduced to not more than four levels from seven-eight levels.