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DEPARTMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE REFORMS & PUBLIC GRIEVANCES
Scheme, all officers of central and state governments individually or as a group or
as organisation are eligible. The award carries a medal, scroll and a cash amount
of one lakh rupees. In case of a group, the total award money is five lakh rupees
subject to a maximum of one lakh rupees per person. For an organisation, this is
limited to five lakh rupees. The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public
Grievances is the nodal agency for inviting nominations and coordinating the process
for the Awards.
5.1 The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh gave away the Prime Minister’s Awards
for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2006-07 for the second time on
21 April, 2008, on the occasion of Civil Services Day. There were fourteen initiatives
in three categories - individual, group and organisation for the year that were
awarded. Under the individual category the awards were bagged by (i) Shri J. K.
Tripathy, Inspector General of Police, Government of Tamil Nadu for ‘Trichy
Community Policing’ , (ii) Dr. T. Chandra Shekhar, Vice President and CEO
Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority, Mumbai for ‘Changing face
of Thane and Nagpur Cities’, (iii) Ms. Sheela Rani Chunkat, Chairman, Tamil Nadu
Industrial Investment Corporation Ltd., for her initiative ‘Improving Maternal and
Child Survival and Health’. Under the Group category the awards were given to (i)
A team of officers from Uttar Pradesh for ‘Lokvani – an effort to empower the citizen’
(Uttar Pradesh), (ii) A team of officers from Office of Comptroller and Auditor
General of India for ‘Information Technology Audit Initiative’, (iii) A team of officers
from the state of Uttarkhand for ‘Effective Management of Protected Areas –
Uttarakhand’, (iv) A team of officers at Centre for Railway Information System for
‘Unreserved Ticketing System – Ministry of Railways’, (v) A team of officers from
Government of Maharashtra for ‘Rajarshi Shahu Sarvangin Karyakram, Zilla
Parishad, Kolhapur, Maharashtra’, (vi) A team of officers from Government of NCT
of Delhi for ‘Radical Improvement in Delhi Government School System, Government
of NCT of Delhi’, (vii) A team of officers from state of Jammu and Kashmir for
‘Extraordinary Performance in Emergent Situation of Earthquake in the State of
J&K’. Under the Organisation Category the awards were given to (i) Water and
Sanitation Management Organisation (WASMO) – ‘Innovative Participatory Drinking
Water Delivery Approach in Rural Areas of Gujarat’ – Government of Gujarat, (ii)
State Poverty Eradication Mission, Kudumbashree – ‘ Asraya – Destitute
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