Vinod Bhat
New Delhi: The Prime Minister has directed Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) to hold virtual conferences/ webinars with District Collectors and other officers in which past award winners of PM’s Awards for Excellence in Public Administration be invited to present their experiences with the objective of greater dissemination and replication.
In pursuance of the Prime Minister’s directions, the DARPG has conducted 33 National Good Governance Webinars, one Webinar every month, since April, 2022 to encourage dissemination and replication of the award-winning nominations under the Scheme of Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration. Each webinar is attended by about 1000 officials from Line Departments, State Governments, District Collectors, State Administrative Training Institutes and Central Training Institutes.
These webinars not only present the current status of institutionalisation/ sustainability of the initiative, but also provides insights into the status of its replication/expansion.
The 33rd Webinar was held on the 22th December 2025 in which two initiatives, awarded with the PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2023, under the theme ‘Holistic Development of Districts’, as per details below presented Power Point presentation on:
Nalanda District initiative, Bihar by Shri Shashank Shubhankar, District Magistrate, Gaya, Bihar; and
Barpeta District initiative, Assam by Shri Aayush Garg, Deputy Commissioner, Sivasagar, Assam.
The Webinar was chaired by Shri Puneet Yadav, Additional Secretary, DARPG and was attended by senior officers of the Department. The Webinar was attended from more than 800 locations across India with Senior Officials of Administrative Reforms Departments of States/UTs, District Collectors, State and District officers, Officers of Central and State Administrative Training Institutes.
