Need to replicate innovative ideas: V Narayanasamy

NEW DELHI: Union minister V Narayanasamy today said the country has no dearth of innovative ideas and they should be replicated to ensure improved public service delivery system.

"There is no dearth of innovative ideas in our country. It is, however, necessary to make efforts to replicate them elsewhere so that the successful initiatives do not remain confined to islands of excellence," Narayanasamy told reporters here.

He, along with Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari, jointly launched documentary films on five good governance initiatives produced by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances ( DARPG).

Narayanasamy, Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances and Pensions, said these initiatives highlight the zeal of the civil servants who have conceived the projects, re-engineered the processes and implemented the initiatives with the support of the government to improve public service delivery in their respective areas of function.

He said that these initiatives are to be suitably documented and disseminated to enable their adaption, replication and further innovation, for the betterment of the common man.

Tewari said that though a number of progressive and developmental initiatives are taken by the central and state governments, it is often complained that the benefits do not reach the ground level.

Appreciating the initiative taken by DARPG to disseminate these practices, the I&B Minister said that this would facilitate their replication elsewhere and the benefits will percolate down to the common man.

The initiatives reflected through three of the five small films launched today-- Village Health & Nutrition in Complete Convergence Mode in Tripura, Participatory Scientific Watershed Management in Gujarat, Sustainable Plastic Waste Management in Himachal Pradesh-- were conferred the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence in Public Administration in the previous years.

The other two--Liberating Manual Scavengers and Moving Towards Total Sanitation, District Budaun, Uttar Pradesh, and Jeevika-Bihar Rural Livelihoods Promotion Society: Socio Economic Empowerment of Rural Poor through Sustainable Community Institution-- have been well acclaimed all over the country for its importance, said Sanjay Kothari, Secretary, DARPG.

So far 43 such documentary films have been produced by the department through the Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity. Documentary films on thirteen more initiatives are in the process of production.

These documentary films are meant for diverse audiences such as probationers and other officers in national academies and state training institutes; delegates in conferences, seminars and meetings at Central, State, District, Panchayat levels; and for telecast on national network of Doordarshan or other television channels for general public, a press release issued today by the Ministry of Personnel said.