Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
Year End review: Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
21 DEC 2018
12th Civil Services Day event:
The Vice President of India, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu inaugurated 2-day
event of 12th Civil Services Day on 20.4.2018. The Prime Minister, Shri
Narendra Modi, addressed Civil Servants on the occasion of Civil
Services Day on 21.4.18. Prime Minister presented 15 awards to the
winners in various categories. He said that the priority programmes such
as Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana, Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen
Kaushalya Yojana, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana and Promoting Digital
Payments, for which awards have been given, are important programmes for
'New India'.
On the occasion of Civil Services Day, 2018, the
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DAR&PG),
Government of India produced two films namely 'Journey of PM-Awards
2018' and 'New India-shaping the future' through NFDC empanelled
producers. The same was screened during CSD, 2018. These films are
available on the Department's website, as well as social media platforms
such as twitter and facebook. Two books namely 'Emulating Excellence -
Takeaways for Replication' consisting of 28 successful Innovations and
'New Pathways' containing 34 Success Stories in implementation of select
Priority Programmes, have been published and released on the occasion
of Civil Services Day, 2018 which were released by Shri M. Venkaiah
Naidu, Hon'ble Vice-President of India on 20th April, 2018 and Shri
Narendra Modi, Hon'ble Prime Minister of India on 21st April, 2018 at
Vigyan Bhavan respectively. A digital exhibition on Success stories of
identified priority programmes (Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana,
Promoting Digital Payments, Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana- Urban &
Rural, and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Grameen Kaushalya Yojana) and
shortlisted Innovations by districts and Central, State organisations
was also organized. Creative works of Civil Servants were also showcased
in the Exhibition. This included books, music, paintings etc. The
exhibition was inaugurated by Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu, Hon'ble
Vice-President of India on the occasion of Civil Services Day held on
20-21st April, 2018.
Posting of Assistance Secretaries in Central Ministries:
On 11.07.18, the Vice President, Shri M. Venkaiah Naidu addressed the
IAS Officers of 2016 batch posted as Assistant Secretaries in Government
of India. He asked the IAS officers to look upon people as active
agents of transforming India, not merely as 'target groups' or
'beneficiaries'. 176 young IAS officers of the 2016 batch working as
Assistant Secretaries in 58 Central ministries attended the Interactive
Session. On 04.07.18, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, interacted
with over 170 young IAS officers during the inaugural session of the
2016 Batch, who were appointed Assistant Secretaries in the Government
of India. The Prime Minister encouraged them to share their experiences
of field training. He discussed with them some of the elements of good
governance, including Jan Bhagidari, information flows, optimal
utilisation of resources, and people's trust in governance. At the
Valedictory Session on 27.09.18, IAS officers of the 2016 batch made
presentations before the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi. 8 selected
presentations were made by the officers, on themes such as raising farm
incomes, soil health cards, grievance redressal, citizen-centric
services, power sector reform, tourist facilitation, e-auctions, and
smart urban development solutions.
MoS (PP) Dr Jitendra Singh interacted with the participants of 120th Induction Training Programme
on 03.08.18. The group of 89 officers from 18 states who were promoted
to IAS from the State Civil Service attended the training programme at
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA),
Mussoorie. During interaction with the Minister, the participants
discussed various issues including standardisation of training, setting
up of new training centres, shortage of IAS officers at some places and
new initiatives of the Government etc.
On 02.07.18, MoS Dr Jitendra Singh delivered the inaugural address at
44th Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration (APPPA) for Civil Servants and officers, organized by the Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA).
As per the practice adopted by the present Government,
MoS
Dr. Jitendra Singh felicitated the toppers of Civil Services
Examination (2017) at a ceremony organised by Department of Personnel
& Training (DoPT) in New Delhi on 01.05.18.
Regional Conferences on Good Governance:
The Department organized three Regional conferences at Bhopal (MP),
Kohima (Nagaland) and Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) during FY 2018-19.
Senior Officers of the Central and State Governments responsible for
implementing good governance practices, officers from Niti Aayog, DCs of
aspirational districts, awardees of PM's awards, e-Governance and CAPAM
awards, etc participated in the conference. The theme of conferences
this year was on Good Governance Initiatives with focus on Aspirational
Districts/Capacity Building/Citizen Centric Services/Awarded initiatives
and e-governance in service delivery.
This year, two issues of
the biannual magazine 'Minimum Government Maximum Governance', July-
December, 2017 & Jan-June, 2018 were e-Published on the Department's
website in the month of January, 2018 and July, 2018 respectively.
National e-Governance Awards:
MoS (PP) Dr Jitendra Singh presented National Awards for e-Governance
2017-18 on 27.12.2018 in a two-day event of National Conference on
e-Governance 2018 (21st edition) held at Hyderabad, Telangana. He
presented 19 awards in 8 categories for commending efforts in the field
of e-Governance. In each category, the gold carried a cash award of Rs. 2
Lakh & citation and the silver carried Rs. one Lakh cash award. The
theme of the Conference was 'Technology for accelerating Development'.
The conference was inaugurated on 26.02.2018 by the Union Minister of
State for Consumers Affairs, Food & Public Distribution and Commerce
& Industry, Shri C.R. Choudhary and the Minister of Information
Technology, Municipal Administration & Urban Development, Industries
and Commerce of Telangana State, Shri K. T. Rama Rao. An Exhibition was
also organized at the venue where the e-Governance projects of various
State Governments and the Centre were displayed. A hall of fame was put
up where e-Governance initiatives which have sustained and developed
over time and those which have a potential for paradigm shift in the way
citizens access market services were showcased. These initiatives
included platforms of Aadhaar, GSTN, Government e-Marketplace (GeM),
Hawkeye, e-NAM platform of the Ministry of Agriculture & Farmer's
Welfare, MeeSeva etc.
The next National Conference on e-Governance
2019 (22nd edition) is going to be organized by the State Government of
Rajasthan at Jaipur in the month of February 2019. During the
Conference, it is proposed to give National Awards for eGovernance under
6 categories, viz. (1) Excellence in Government Process Reengineering
for Digital Transformation; (2) Excellence in providing Citizen Centric
Delivery; (3) Excellence in District level initiative in eGovernance i).
North-East States + Hilly States ii). UTs (including Delhi) iii). Other
States (4) Outstanding research on Citizen Centric Services by
Academic/Research Institutions; (5) Innovative Use of ICTin eGovernance
solutions by Startups [Startup as defined by Department of Industrial
Policy and Promotion (DIPP) Government of India]; (6) Excellence in
Adopting Emerging Technologies. The theme of the Conference is 'Digital
India: Success to Excellence."
Certificates of Appreciation to Ministries/departments for implementation of e-office prgoramme:
On 14.03.2018, MoS Dr. Jitendra Singh presented Certificates of
Appreciation to 34 Ministries/Departments for implementation of e-Office
programme in their respective ministries/Departments. The Awards are
given by the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public
Grievances (DARPG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances and
Pensions, Government of India. E-Office is one of the Mission Mode
Projects under Digital India Programme.
International cooperation
in the field of Public Administration and Governance: The Department
works as the nodal point in respect of matters relating to international
cooperation in the field of Public Administration and Governance, which
includes organizing programmes and visits of the foreign delegation to
India and visits of Indian delegation abroad as part of
projects/bilateral measures taken up in accordance with the Memorandum
of Understandings (MOUs)/Agreements signed between India and other
countries (bilateral or multilateral). The purpose of the international
cooperation component is to enable the sharing of information, best
practice and personnel across national government.
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances as
the institutional member and Board member of Commonwealth Association
for Public Administration and Management (CAPAM) is actively engaged
with various strategic programmes and activities of CAPAM in promoting
good governance across the Commonwealth. In the CAPAM General Members
meeting held on 21st October, 2018, at Guyana, Georgetown. Secretary,
DARPG was elected on the Board of Directors of CAPAM for the period
2018-2020. During the CAPAM Conference held at Guyana, Georgetown, CAPAM
Innovation Awards were announced. Out of the four categories, India won
awards in 2 categories. The initiative entitled "Unnayan Banka-
Reinventing Education Using Technology of Banka District , State of
Bihar has been selected under the Category "Innovation Incubation".
Another initiative entitled "Unified Agriculture Markets, Co-operation
Department of Government of Karnataka has also been selected under the
Category 'Innovation in Public Service Management' and CAPAM's one and
only gold medal also went to the India to this Initiative.
Under
its given mandate, DARPG has also been deputing officers of Government
of India and States/UTs including winners of Prime Minister's Award for
Excellence in Public Administration and National Awards for e.
Governance to short term customized foreign training programmes in
Institutes/Universities of International repute to share administrative
experiences and best practices in the area of public administration and
delivery of service. During 2018-19, two groups each comprising 15
officers attended training programmes at Korea Development Institute
(KDI, Seoul South Korea in May/June 2018 and Maxwell Syracuse
University, New York, USA during November 2018.
Certificates of Appreciation to the Ministries/Departments based on their performance in CPGRAMS: On
27.04.18, the Minister awarded the Certificates of Appreciation to the
Ministries/Departments based on their performance in the Centralized
Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS). Departments
were conferred with the awards for the quarters from July to September,
2017 and October to December, 2017. On 10.08.2018, Dr. Jitendra Singh
presented the certificates to various Ministries/Departments for
Meritorious Performance in handling Public Grievances on PG Portal, the
Ministries were awarded certificates for the quarters January-March,
2018 and April-June, 2018.
Launch of Online dashboard to monitor public grievances launched: On
11.04.18, Dr. Jitendra Singh launched an online dashboard developed by
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG). The
dashboard monitors public grievances on a real time basis and
periodically reviews progress of systemic reforms. This enables
concerned Ministries/Departments to monitor implementation of these
reforms.
Disposal of Public grievances: The status of receipts and disposal of Public Grievances dealt with during 2018 as on 21.12.2018 is as under:
No. of grievances pending as on 01.01.2018: 1,21,806
No. of grievances received during 2018: 10,92,221
No. of grievances redressed during 2018: 11,01,267
No. of grievances pending as on 21.12.2018: 93,107
Cabinet decisions:
- On
07.03.18, the Union Cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Shri Narendra
Modi approved the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) and Public Service Commission of
Mauritius. The MoU will develop institutionalized linkage between the
Public Service Commissions of two countries. It defines the scope of
cooperation between the PSC, Mauritius and the UPSC and sets out the
areas of cooperation and obligations of the Parties.
- On
23.05.18, the Cabinet approved signing of the Memorandum of
Understanding (MoU) between India and Singapore on Cooperation in the
field of Personnel Management and Public Administration. The MoU aims at
improving the current system of governance, particularly in the areas
of Workforce, Workplace and Jobs, Public Service Delivery, Human
Resource Management, Public Sector Reform, Leadership/ Talent
Development and E-Governance/Digital Government.
Malaysian delegation led by the Human Resources Minister Mr. M. Kulasegaran met the MoS Dr Jitendra Singh on
09.10.19. The visit was the follow up of the visit of Prime Minister
Shri Narendra Modi's visit to Malaysia in May 2018. During the meeting,
various issues related to bilateral cooperation in the field of
recruitment, training and other aspects of public services came up for
discussion.
The Minister for Public Service & Good
Governance, Law & Justice, Government of Tanzania (Zanzibar), Mr
Haroun Ali Suleiman called on MoS, Dr Jitendra Singh on
16.11.18 and discussed India's experience with good practices in
governance as well as possibilities of exchange programmes at academic
level with Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration
(LBSNAA), Mussoorie and other Indian institutions.
Pension Adalat: This
Department of Pensions and Pensioners' Welfare had started the unique
experiment of holding Pension Adalat of those cases in CPENGRAMS which
were either routinely closed by various Ministries or not disposed of
within the time-line of 60 days. The methodology adopted was to invite
all the stake-holders of a particular grievance on a single table viz.
the concerned Department, the PAO, the concerned Bank and representative
of the Pensioner and resolve the case across the table.
In the
2nd Pension Adalat on February 9, 2018, 34 pending pension grievances
were taken up and the various stakeholders from Ministries, Departments,
Banks, CPAO were called upon to redress the grievance on the spot. The
cases included revision of Family Pension, Commutation of Pension, final
settlement of GPF, Fixed Medical Allowance etc. Out of the 34 selected
cases, 20 cases were resolved in the Adalat itself. Out of these, 19
cases were resolved by accepting the claims of the Pensioners. Suitable
instructions were conveyed to the concerned Departments for resolving
the remaining cases. As on November 30, 2018, out of 34 grievances
raised in Adalat, 30 have been resolved. The Departmental Parliamentary
Standing Committee for Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances &
Pensions in its 95th Report appreciated the system of holding Pension
Adalats and suggested that a day may be dedicated to the Pensioners, as
part of good governance, and efforts be made to minimise their
grievances. The Committee had suggested holding Pension Adalats, on a
particular day, across Ministries, throughout the country, with this
objective in view.
All India Pension Adalat - 2018:
In its attempt to devote one day in the year to Pensioners, Department
of Pension & Pensioners' Welfare conducted an All India Pension
Adalat on September 18, 2018, which was inaugurated by the MoS (PP) Dr
Jitendra Singh. These Adalats were conducted across
Ministries/Departments throughout the country including all the Central
Armed Police Forces (CAPFs) as well as non-Civil Ministries viz.
Defence, Railways, Telecom and Posts. The Chief Secretaries of States
were also asked to conduct Adalats for the All India Service Pensioners
who fall within the jurisdiction of this Ministry. The model followed
was to bring all the stake-holders viz. the Heads of the Department, the
PAO office and the concerned Bank, on one table along with the
pensioner or his representative and provide on-the-spot resolution. From
the reports received, 12,849 cases were taken up for redressal in these
Pension Adalats. 9,368 (73%) grievances relating to Central Govt.
Ministries/Departments/Organisations were resolved on the same day. In
addition to this, States/UTs, also conducted Pension Adalat for All
India Service retired officers, during which 1614 grievances were
settled on the same day. .
On the same day, the Department of
Pension & Pensioners' Welfare also took up 32 grievances of various
Ministries where the pensioners has expressed his/her dissatisfaction
over the disposal by the concerned authorities. These cases were
selected from the unresolved grievances in CPENGRAMS portal. In
addition, 4 cases which could not be resolved in the last Pension Adalat
were also reviewed. Out of these, 22 cases were settled on-the-spot in
the Adalat. Suitable instructions/directions were given in the remaining
cases to the concerned Departments/PAO/CPAO/Banks to resolve the
grievances within a given time frame.
Root cause analysis of Pensioners' grievances This
department got conducted a Root Cause Analysis of pensioners'
grievances by an independent third party, keeping in focus the quality
of disposal, which in some cases was not satisfactory. The methodology
adopted was a comprehensive review of focus ministries and after a Root
Cause Analysis arrive on the basis of the grievances. The feedbacks were
also analysed along with the redressal procedure. As a result of this
exercise the various stake-holders of grievances were identified and
action taken to rectify the Root Causes of such grievances. This
included meetings with banks in such cases where delay took place in
initiation of pension/family pension, disruption in pension credit,
discrepancy in pension amount, not providing pension slips, delay in
giving effect to change in branch as desired by the pensioner.
Similarly, issues pertaining to CPAO were taken up such as revision of
pre-01.01.2016 pension revision cases, delay in issue of revised
authority etc.
ANUBHAV: During the Third Anubhav
Award Ceremony, six Awards were given by the Minister of State (PP) on
September 18, 2018 to selected write-ups published from April 1, 2017 to
March 31, 2018 on Anubhav Portal. A Pre- retirement counselling
workshop was organized on 10.01.18 in the presence of MoS (PP) with the
objective to aware retirees about their retirement dues and post
retirement activities. In this workshop about 125 retirees interacted
with 5 NGOs with a view to explore volunteer activities in their post
retirement life.
Digital Life Certificate from home: Keeping in
view the great discomfort experienced by very senior and ailing
Pensioners in queuing up outside Banks in the month of November to give
their Life Certificate, the Department undertook a path breaking
initiative: involve Pensioners' Associations in eight cities on a pilot
basis and obtain Digital Life Certificate from home of such Pensioners.
This was a pilot program conducted in Noida/Delhi, Chandigarh, Dehradun,
Mumbai, Mysore Vadodara, Trivandrum &Bangalore. Till 13.12.2018,
2480 number of DLCs were obtained from homes of aged Pensioners.
Standing Committee of Voluntary Agencies (SCOVA):
A Standing Committee of Voluntary agencies (SCOVA) has been set up
under the Chairmanship of MOS (PP) with a view to provide feedback on
the implementation of policies/programmes of this Department besides
mobilizing voluntary effort to supplement the Government action. 30th
SCOVA meeting was held under the Chairmanship of Dr Jitendra Singh,
Hon'ble Minister of State (PP) on March23, 2018 in New Delhi, which was
attended by representatives of various Pensioners Associations and the
Ministries/Department. Many issues related to pensioners were discussed
such as revision of PPOs of pre-2006 pensioners, Health Insurance Scheme
for pensioners including those residing in non-CGHS area, Special
"Higher" Family Pension for widows of the war disabled invalidated out
of service, Extension of CGHS facilities to P&T pensioners, issue
relating to CGHS Wellness Centre, Dehradun etc.
Pension Reforms during 2018:
- Vide
Order dated 31.01.2018 Certification of CMO has been dispensed with for
claiming Fixed Medical Allowance by the pensioners residing in the city
not covered under CGHS.
- A Committee under the Chairmanship of
Secretary, Department of Pension and Pensioners Welfare was constituted
by Department of Financial Services to suggest measures for streamlining
the implementation of National Pension Scheme. The Committee submitted
its report on 28.2.2018. Based on the recommendations of the Committee,
the Government has taken the following decisions: -
- Enhancement
of the mandatory contribution by the Central Government for its
employees covered under NPS Tier-I from the existing 10% to 14%.
- Providing freedom of choice for selection of Pension Funds and pattern of investment to Central government employees.
- Payment of compensation for non-deposit or delayed deposit of NPS contributions during 2004-2012.
- Tax
exemption limit for lump sum withdrawal on exit has been enhanced to
60%. With this, the entire withdrawal will now be exempt from income
tax.
Annual report of the Central Information Commission (CIC) was tabled in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha on 14thand 15th March 2018 respectively. The trends of Annual Report were as follows:
- During
the reporting year 2016-17, 9.17 lakh RTI applications were received by
the registered Central Public Authorities (PAs). This is lower by
59,670 or 6.1% than what was reported during 2015-16.
- The
Central PAs rejected 6.59% (60,428) of the RTI applications processed
during 2016-17 showing a downward trend in rejections which have come
down by 0.03% from the 6.62% reported in 2015-16.
- Highest
percentage of RTI applications rejected was reported by Ministry of
Finance (18.41%), Ministry of Home Affairs (16.08%) and Ministry of
Labour and Employment (14.37%).
- Annual Report 2016-17 shows a
decrease of 0.08% in First Appeals received by the Central PA's in
comparison to the previous year.
- The CIC disposed of 32,344
appeals and complaints cases in 2016-17 which is the highest disposal by
the Commission since inception. A total of 23,811 cases were registered
during the same period. At the end of the year the Commission had
26,449 cases pending before it.
- The Commission imposed penalties
to the tune of Rs. 18.98 lakhs during 2016-17 whereas a total of Rs.
8.6 lakhs was recovered from the PIOs.
- Total 1,965 PA's have submitted Annual Returns which is higher than the previous year 2015-16.
13th Annual Convention of the Central Information Commission (CIC) The
President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, inaugurated the 13th Annual
Convention of the Central Information Commission (CIC) on 12.10.18. The
Annual Convention on the topic "Data privacy and Right to information,
Amendment in the RTI Act and Implementation of the RTI Act" aimed at
recommending measures for improving the transparency and accountability
with a view to improve governance. The Convention deliberated on three
specific subjects viz. "Data privacy and Right to Information",
"Amendment in the RTI Act" and "Implementation of the RTI Act."
New building of the Central Information Commission (CIC):
On 06.03.18, the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi, inaugurated the
new building of the Central Information Commission (CIC) in New Delhi.
He noted that the building had been completed before the due date, and
congratulated all agencies involved in the construction. He said the
environment friendly Griha-IV rating would ensure energy savings, and
help conserve the environment. The new building will enable the
Commission to function from a single location. Earlier it was working
from two hired buildings. The new CIC building is a State of the
Art-Green Building constructed by National Building Construction
Corporation ahead of its completion date. The five storey structure
houses all the hearing rooms of the Central Information Commission with
state of the art, IT and Video Conferencing Systems. CIC is the apex
appellate body established by the Right to Information Act 2005.
Central Information Commission (CIC) launched a newly updated version of mobile app in Hindi - "CIC App" in July, 2018, which is available in Google Play Store and Apple store with the following features:
- Applicant can submit his/her 2nd Appeal(s)/Complaint(s)/ link paper(s) in both the languages i.e. in Hindi and English
- The appellant can search and trace dak, 2nd Appeal/Complaint in both the languages.
- Real time status is available in both the languages (Hindi & English)
- Appellant can download copy of Hearing notice, Facilitation memo & decision.
The Central Information Commission has undertaken an evaluation to
ascertain the quality of suo-motu disclosures u/s 4 of RTI Act
made by various Public Authorities. The evaluation was conducted by a
Committee comprising of Shri A.N. Tiwari, former Chief Information
Commissioner and Shri M.M. Ansari, former Information Commissioner.
(20.11.18).
The Central Information Commission organised a seminar on the topic "
Health and Right to Information Act 2005"
on 07.04.18. The seminar was attended by Chief Information
Commissioner, Central Information Commissioners, former Information
Commissioners, State Information Commissioners, NGOs and other
stake-holders.
Vigilance Awareness Week: The
Central Vigilance Commission observed Vigilance Awareness Week during
the week in which 31st October, the birthday of late Sardar Vallabhbhai
Patel falls. In 2018, the Vigilance Awareness Week was observed from
29th October to 3rd November, 2018 with the theme "Eradicate
Corruption-Build a New India". The
observance of the Vigilance Awareness Week commenced with the taking of
the Integrity Pledge by the Central Vigilance Commission which was
webcast live and telecast on Doordarshan to enable all Central
Government public servants to simultaneously take the pledge. The
President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind was the Chief Guest for the
Vigilance Awareness Week Function held at Vigyan Bhavan on 31st October
2018. MoS Dr Jitendra Singh, was the guest of honour at the function.
The function was attended by senior serving and retired functionaries of
various constitutional and statutory bodies, senior officers of various
Ministries, Departments and other Central Government Organisations,
Central Public Sector Enterprises, representatives of Professional
Associations, Trade and Industry Associations and NGOs, Principals and
Heads of Educational Institutions as well as students. The President
gave away the Vigilance Excellence Awards for good work done by
organizations in the field of punitive, preventive and participative
vigilance. Organisational activities were conducted on a large scale
during the Vigilance Awareness Week by departments and organizations of
the Government of India.
CVC Lecture Series:
During the year, the CVC organised lectures by experts/eminent persons
on various topic as a part of its "Lecture Series". These are: Smt
Sumitra Mahajan, Speaker, Lok Sabha on the topic "My Experiences as a
Representative of People", Dr. Rathin Roy, Director, National Institute
of Public Finance and Policy on the topic "Why Fiscal Rectitude
Matters", Dr Ajay Bhushan Pandey, CEO UIDAI on the topic "Aadhar- tool
for Empowerment and Transparency", Shri Shaktikanta Das, Member, Finance
Commission of India on the topic "India Economy - the Structural
Question", Dr. Ashima Goyal, Member, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory
Council on the topic "Indian Institutions: Evolution and Hysterisis",
Dr. Surjit S. Bhalla, Member, Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council
on the topic "Employment and Poverty Reduction in India ", CEO, NITI
Aayog, Shri Amitabh Kant on the topic "Transformation of Aspirational
Districts - a New India by 2022", Shri M. Damodaran, former Chairman,
SEBI on the topic "Corporate Governance in Public Sector", Dr. Urjit
Patel, Governor, RBI on the topic "Preventive Vigilance - the Key Tool
of Good Governance at Public Sector Institutions", Dr.T.M. Bhasin,
Vigilance Commissioner, CVC on "Report on Analysis of Top 100 Bank
Frauds", Shri Hemant G. Contractor, Chairman, Pension Fund Regulatory
and Development Authority (PFRDA) on the topic "Pensions and Social
Security".
Report on Top 100 Bank Frauds: CVC has
reviewed and analyzed Top 100 Bank Frauds, from data as on 2017 in a
report released this year. The study was divided into 13 sectors
comprising Gems and Jewellery, Manufacturing, Agro sector, Media,
Aviation, Service Sector, Discounting of cheques and bills, Trading
sector, IT Sector, Exports sector, Fixed deposits and Demand Loan
etc.The modus operandi of these loans has been thoroughly analysed and
various loopholes/lapses have been identified. Based on the findings,
various industry specific suggestions for systemic improvement have been
given in the final report, which have also been sent to Deptt. of
Financial Services and RBI, in order to plug the loopholes observed by
the Commission. The measures suggested include strengthening of SOPs,
monitoring system and also highlighting the role of controlling offices,
so as examine the aspect of quality of business. The analytical study
was initiated by the Commission as a Preventive Vigilance measure so as
to minimize the occurrence of such type frauds in future.
UPSC allows facility of withdrawal of applications by candidates: The
Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) has allowed the facility of
withdrawal of applications by candidates. This was announced by the
Chairman of UPSC Shri Arvind Saxena, while speaking on the occasion of
the 92nd Foundation Day Celebrations on 01.10.18. The Chairman said that
UPSC's experience with the Civil Services Examination is that roughly
50% of the 10 lakh plus candidates who fill in the application forms for
the Preliminary examination actually write the examination. "The
Commission has to book venues, print papers, hire invigilators and ship
the documents for all the 10 lakh applicants - which turns out to be a
50% waste of energy and resources". On successful completion of
withdrawal of application, confirmation message will be sent on email
and also an SMS. Once application has been withdrawn, it cannot be
revived.
Shri Arvind Saxena takes oath as Chairman, UPSC:
Shri Saxena joined the Commission as Member on 08.05.2015 and was later
on appointed to perform the duties of the post of Chairman, UPSC on
20.06.2018. Shri Arvind Saxena has been sworn in as the Chairman, Union
Public Service Commission on 29.11.18.
Shri Bharat Bhushan
Vyas, IAS (J&K 1986) (Retd.) took the Oath of Office and Secrecy as
Member, Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) on 13.12.18. The Oath was administered by Shri Arvind Saxena, Chairman, UPSC.
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