Minister of State for Personnel, Pension and Public Grievances Dr. Jitendra Singh today launched Swachhata Portal for the Special Campaign 2.0. The campaign which is to begin on 2nd October is dedicated to Swachhata and reducing the pendency of work in Government offices.
On the occasion, Dr. Singh said, the scope and mandate of Special Campaign 2.0 from 2nd October to 31st October 2022 has been expanded and all regional offices have been included in the campaign, apart from all Ministries, Departments and attached offices. The Minister said, to date, more than 67 thousand Sites have been identified by Ministries and Departments for conducting cleanliness campaigns and it is likely to touch one lakh sites by the end of this month. Earlier, there were only six thousand sites in the first special campaign undertaken in October 2021.
Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Special Campaign 2022 reinforces the importance of timely disposal of references and a clean workspace. It is expected to cover over 1.5 lakh Post Offices, overseas missions, Railway Stations, and other public offices in mission mode during the month-long campaign. Training of nodal officers with respect to the portal of the Special Campaign has already been conducted by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievance, DARPG.
The launch ceremony was attended by senior officers of 85 Ministries and Departments of Government of India, in the presence of Secretary, DARPG, V. Srinivas.
On the occasion, the Minister also released three reports of DARPG, the Special Campaign July Progress Report, the Centralised Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System- CPGRAMS 7. 0 Brochure and the CPGRAMS Monthly Progress Report for August, 2022.
