New Delhi (03.01.2022): Jammu & Kashmir will soon become the first Union Territory in the country to have a district-level Good Governance Index.

Disclosing this initiative after receiving an update from the newly appointed Secretary of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Union Ministry of Personnel, V Srinivas, Union Minister of State for PMO and Personnel, Dr Jitendra Singh said, Centre will set up District Good Governance Index (DGGI) in J&K and the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) will carry out this task in collaboration with the J&K Government. This framework of the proposed Index has been finalized with technical support from the Centre for Good Governance(CGG) Hyderabad.

The Minister said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is keen that we should replicate in Jammu & Kashmir, the same best practices of governance which are followed in other States and UTs of the country.

Jitendra Singh said that the Good Governance Index at the district level will enable each of the twenty districts of Jammu & Kashmir to rise to the level of some of the best-administered districts of the country. He said, the next step would be to carry forward these Good Governance practices down to Tehsil and Block level.