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Reservation in Promotion
The
instructions issued by Department of Personnel & Training provide
for reservation in promotion to persons belonging to Scheduled Castes
(SCs) and Scheduled Tribes (STs) in posts in the Central Government upto
the lowest rung of Group ‘A’. These instructions are also being
implemented by Central Public Sector Undertakings, wherever reservation
in promotion is applicable.
The Supreme Court in its judgment
dated 19.10.2006 in the matter of M. Nagaraj & Others vs. Union of
India and Ors., while upholding the validity of some of the
Constitutional Amendments, observed that the concerned State will have
to show in each case the existence of compelling reasons, namely,
backwardness, inadequacy of representation and overall efficiency of
administration before providing reservation in promotion. In order to
provide impediment free reservation in promotion to SCs and STs, the
Constitution (One Hundred and Seventeenth Amendment) Bill, 2012 was
introduced in Rajya Sabha in September, 2012. The Bill was passed by the
Rajya Sabha on 17.12.2012 and transmitted to the Lok Sabha for
consideration and passing. The Bill could not be considered in the Lok
Sabha and lapsed on the dissolution of 15th Lok Sabha. The issues
emanating from the Supreme Court judgment in M. Nagaraj case are under
examination.
This was stated by Minister of State for Personnel,
Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of State in the PMO Dr.
Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by Shri Kaushal Kishore
in the Lok Sabha today.
Time Taken to Dispose Appeal
As
per the Right to Information Act, 2005 it is mandatory on the part of
Public Information Officer either to provide the information or reject
the request for any of the reasons specified by the RTI Act within 30
days of receipt of the request. However, information concerning life or
liberty of a person has to be provided in forty-eight hours of the
receipt of request.
Similarly, as per the RTI Act, an appeal shall
be disposed of within 30 days on the receipt of the appeal by the First
Appellate Authority or within such extended period not exceeding a
total of 45 days from the date of filing thereof, as the case may be,
for reasons to be recorded in writing.
The Act, however, does not
prescribe time limit or target for disposal of 2nd appeal/complaint by
the Central Information Commission.
The Commission, however, on
22.03.2011 decided that each Information Commissioner including Chief
Information Commissioner will endeavour to decide about 3200
appeals/complaints per year. During 2015, a total of 27,922
appeals/complaints were disposed off.
This was stated by Minister
of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of
State in the PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by
Shri Sharad Tripathi, Shri Y.V. Subba Reddy and Shri K.N. Ramachandran
in the Lok Sabha today.
Simplified Forms
The
subjects like registration of birth and death certificate falls within
the State List of the Constitution of India. It is for the States and
Union Territory Administrations to take action for simplification of
their forms as per the need and requirement. As a part of `Minimum
Government & Maximum governance’ various initiatives are being
undertaken in the Central Government for reforms, which includes
simplification of procedures and forms. Accordingly, Department of
Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances has on 15.02.2016
requested all Ministries/Departments to undertake an exercise to review
forms concerning citizens’ services and explore the possibility making
them one page. Further, administrative reforms, inter-alia, concerning
simplification of procedures and forms are a continuous exercise and
depend on the requirements of the day.
This was stated by Minister
of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions and Minister of
State in the PMO Dr. Jitendra Singh in a written reply to a question by
Shri V. Panneerselvam, Shri B. Vinod Kumar, Shri Prem Singh Chandumajra,
Shri PR Senthil Nathan and Shrimati V. Sathya Bama in the Lok Sabha
today.
Monitoring of Grievances
The total
number of grievances received on the online Centralized Public Grievance
Redress and Monitoring System(CPGRAMS) in respect of Central Government
Ministries/ Departments during the last four years are as under:-
| Year | No. of Grievances received |
| 2012 | 176126 |
| 2013 | 209637 |
| 2014 | 270255 |
| 2015 | 881132 |
The
increase is due to a number of citizen friendly measures taken by the
Government particularly integration of Prime Minister Office Public
Grievances Redress Mechanism with CPGRAMS, launch of a Mobile App
through which grievances can be lodged on CPGRAMS through android based
Mobile phones, integration of Common Services Centre portal with the
CPGRAMS and also higher expectations of the citizens from the
Government.
Instructions have been issued by the Department of
Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances to Secretaries of all the
Ministries/Departments to accord top level priority to the redress of
grievances by including monitoring of grievance pendency as an agenda
item in review meetings in their Ministries/Departments and to make it
clear to all concerned dealing with public grievances that unwarranted
delays in redressing grievances would be viewed seriously. To enable
effective monitoring of grievances at Secretary level, an electronic
Dashboard has been created showing the consolidated status of grievances
disposed and pending on CPGRAMS for which the user IDs and passwords
have been duly provided to all the Secretaries of Central
Ministries/Departments. Secretaries of all the Departments having
substantial public dealing have been advised to personally examine at
least 10 grievances every week and upload the report on e samiksha
portal of Cabinet Secretariat.
Some of the other important steps
taken by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances
for expeditions and effective disposal of public grievances include : a
Grievance Analysis Study of the top 20 grievance receiving
Ministries/Departments/Organisations for identifying the major
grievances , root cause analysis and systemic reforms for reducing the
grievances and regular review meetings in the Department of
Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances for monitoring the pendency
of public grievances.
This was stated by Minister of State in the
Personnel, Public Grievances and pensions and Dr. Jitendra Singh in a
written reply to a question by Kunwar Haribansh Singh, Dr. Sunil Baliram
Gaikwad, Shri Sudheer Gupta, Shri S.R. Vijayakumar, Dr. J. Jayavardhan,
Shri Gajanan Kirtikar, Dr. Kirit P. Solanki, Shri Ashok Shankarrao
Chavan and Shri Bidyut Baran Mahato in Lok Sabha today.
