Modi’s governance reforms akin to social reforms: Dr Jitendra Singh

New Delhi, Apr 21: Union Minister of State Dr Jitendra Singh on Friday congratulated officers of 16th Civil Services Day while attending a function chaired by prime minister
at Vigyan Bhawan.
Dr Singh noted that the occasion of Civil Services Day this year becomes much more special as the nation has completed 75 years of its independence and is starting to move forward to achieve the goals and objectives of a developed India.
He highlighted the contributions of those Civil Servants who joined the service 15-25 years ago and emphasized the role of young officers who will contribute towards nation-building in the next 25 years of Amrit Kaal.
In his opening remarks, the minister said that in the past 9 years under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership, many revolutionary changes have taken place, which were not just limited to being governance reforms but have wide societal impact and can infact also be described as social and economic reforms.
The Minister recalled that soon after the Government came to power in May 2014, within two to three months, the colonial practice of getting certificates attested by gazetted officers was done away with.
“Thereafter within a year, the Prime Minister spoke from the ramparts of Red Fort about the abolition of interview in job recruitment so that a level playing field could be provided”.
Dr. Jitendra Singh said the grievance redressal mechanism was shifted to CPGRAMS as a result of which about 20 lakh grievances are received every year in comparison to just 2 lakhs every year before this government came in because this government followed a policy of time bound redressal and gained the confidence of the people.
He mentioned that following the Prime Minister’s direction to ensure that the central government reach beyond Delhi, “we have started regional conferences on good governance. Spanning from Leh, Srinagar and Jammu in the North to Bengaluru and Hyderabad in the south, Bhuvneshwar in the east, Mumbai in the West till Itanagar and Shillong in the North East, various regional conferences have been organised”.