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    Union Government issues Comprehensive Guidelines for Handling Public Grievances

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    Union Government issues Comprehensive Guidelines for Handling Public Grievances

    The 2024 policy guidelines reiterate the government’s commitment for effective grievance redressal and manifest the technology improvements undertaken with the 10-step reform process adopted, the PIB said in a press release.

    The union government has issued ‘Comprehensive Guidelines for Handling Public Grievances’ in line with the prime minister’s directions for making grievance redressal time-bound, accessible and meaningful. The guidelines for effective redressal of public grievances seeks to empower citizens, streamline process, bring greater clarity and focus on redressing of public grievances.

    The key highlights of the Comprehensive Guidelines for Handling Public Grievances are as follows:

    1. An integrated user-friendly grievance filing platform with CPGRAMS www.pgportal.gov.in being the common open platform on which grievances can be registered by citizens which will operate as a single window experience.
    2. Appointment of nodal officers for public grievances in all ministries/ departments who will address grievances promptly, fairly and efficiently. Ministries and departments with high grievance loads to have dedicated nodal officers.
    3. The role of the nodal officer is effective categorization, monitoring pendency, examine the feedback for process and policy improvements, undertake root cause analysis, collation of monthly data sets and supervisory oversight of the grievance redressal officers of the ministry or department.
    4. Dedicated grievance cells shall be set-up in every ministry and department with sufficient resources having knowledge of schemes and activities.
    5. The timelines for effective grievance redressal have been reduced to 21 days. In cases where grievance redressal is likely to take longer, citizens shall be given an interim reply.
    6. An escalation process has been envisaged with the appointment of appellate officers and sub-nodal appellate officers in Ministries/ Departments.
    7. The redressal of grievances shall be undertaken in a whole of government approach and action taken report shall be filed by the grievance redressal officers on CPGRAMS.
    8. The feedback on disposed grievances shall be sent to the citizen by SMS and email. Every disposed grievance, feedback shall be collected through the feedback call centre and if the citizen is not satisfied he can file an appeal to the next senior authority.
    9. Government will undertake an analysis of the feedback from citizens using the AI powered analytical tools – the tree dashboard and the intelligent grievance monitoring dashboard.
    10. A grievance redressal assessment index for ranking ministries and departments shall be issued on a monthly basis.
    11. Training and capacity building of grievance officers on CPGRAMS shall be conducted through 36 administrative training institutes of states and union territories under the SEVOTTAM scheme.
    12. Ministries and departments are encouraged to periodically review grievance redressal in senior officers meetings and ensure adequate communication and awareness of the grievance redressal systems amongst all stakeholders.

    The 2024 policy guidelines reiterate the government’s commitment for effective grievance redressal and manifest the technology improvements undertaken with the 10-step reform process adopted, the PIB said in a press release.

    The PIB also said that the CPGRAMS portal has redressed nearly 60 lac public grievances in period 2022-2024 and has mapped 1.01 lac grievance redressal officers of ministries/ departments and states/ union territories. The grievance redressal timelines under the 2022 policy guidelines were 30 days, which have been brought down to 21 days.

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