Current Affairs :United Nations Public Service Award winner

Madhya Pradesh gets United Nations Public Service Award


Madhya Pradesh (MP) has been conferred upon prestigious United Nations
Public Service Award at New York in United State of America (USA). MP
minister of state for public services management Brijendra Pratap
Singh and deputy secretary of his department Manohar Dube received the
award at a grand function in US.

A delegation from MP will also participate in inter-ministerial
conference tomorrow. MP has bagged the award in second prize category
for "Improving the delivery of public services", they added.

UN department of economic and social affairs received 471 entries from
all over the world and MP clinched the prestigious award for
outstanding implementation of public service delivery guarantee act,
they said.

Objective of the award is to promote values and quality of public
service at local, national and international levels. Through it,
recognition and honour are also accorded as awards for international
level innovations, officials said.

So far, about 1.25 crore applications had been received under Public
Service Delivery Guarantee Act in MP. Under the Act, fine is recovered
for failure in delivery of public services to citizens. Fine is
imposed on the erring officials. In MP, 336 public service centres are
being opened under Public Private Partnership (PPP) Mode to make the
implementation of public service delivery guarantee act 2010 more
effective

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