Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
31st Webinar of the National Good Governance
Webinar Series 2025-26 under the theme
‘Aspirational Blocks Programme’ held on 26th
September 2025 for dissemination and replication of
best practices
Posted On: 26 SEP 2025 4:09PM by PIB Delhi
The Prime Minister has directed Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG) to
hold...
Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions 31st Webinar of the National Good Governance Webinar Series 2025-26 under the theme ‘Aspirational Blocks Programme’ held on 26th September 2025 for dissemination and replication of best practices
Posted On: 26 SEP 2025 4:09PM by PIB 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 31 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. st th The 31 Webinar was held on the 26 September 2025 in which two initiatives, awarded with the PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration for the year 2024, under the theme ‘Aspirational Blocks programme’, as per details below presented Power Point presentation on:
i. Gamharia Block initiative, Saraikerla-Kharsawan, Jharkhand by Shri Ravi Shankar Shukla, Commissioner, Department of Excise and Prohibition, Jharkhand; and ii. Parappa Block initiative, Kasaragod, Kerala by Shri Inbasekar K., Deputy Commissioner, Kasaragod, Kerala.
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 850 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.
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