New Delhi (28.10.2021): In an attempt to provide more governance, less government, the Centre has pushed a major bureaucratic reform from next month when no central government file will pass more than four hands before a decision is made. Ministries will also be able to submit e-files to each other. This is an attempt to speed up decision-making and usher in an executive-centric and business-oriented functional transformation of government offices. The four levels identified for the channel of submission are secretary, additional secretary or joint secretary, director or deputy secretary or undersecretary, and all other levels.
A total of 58 ministries and departments have reviewed the “channel of submission” of files to bring it to four levels and the rest of the ministries are working on it. They are expected to do so by next month. Earlier, government files would pass 6-7 levels or even 10-12, before the government started a drive in 2015 to reduce the channel of submission levels to bring pace to policy decisions. Over 32,000 e-files are now being created daily and India has about 25 lakh e-files at present.
Central govt’s files to change less hands to make process more effective
By IndianMandarins - 2021-10-28 10:00:00
New Delhi (28.10.2021): In an attempt to provide more governance, less government, the Centre has pushed a major bureaucratic reform from next month when no central government file will pass more than four hands before a decision is made. Ministries will also be able to submit e-files to each other. This is an attempt to speed up decision-making and usher in an executive-centric and business-oriented functional transformation of government offices. The four levels identified for the channel of submission are secretary, additional secretary or joint secretary, director or deputy secretary or undersecretary, and all other levels.
A total of 58 ministries and departments have reviewed the “channel of submission” of files to bring it to four levels and the rest of the ministries are working on it. They are expected to do so by next month. Earlier, government files would pass 6-7 levels or even 10-12, before the government started a drive in 2015 to reduce the channel of submission levels to bring pace to policy decisions. Over 32,000 e-files are now being created daily and India has about 25 lakh e-files at present.
