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Hon’ble Prime Minister had directed Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), in April 2022, to hold virtual conferences/ webinars with District Collectors and other officers in which past award winners of PM’s Awards (PMA) for Excellence in Public Administration be invited to present their experiences with the objective of greater dissemination and replication.
Since then, 37 webinars have been held so far. Each webinar is attended by about 1000 officials from Line Departments, State Governments, District Collectors, State Administrative Training Institutes and Central Training Institutes.
The 38th National Good Governance Webinar was held on the 28th July 2026 in which the initiative of Solar-Powered Water Schemes under the National Jal Jeevan Mission (JJM) awarded with the PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration, 2023 was presented under the theme ‘Sustainability and Replication of the Initiatives Awarded under PMA’. The Presentations included:
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 2200 locations across India with Senior Officials of Administrative Reforms Departments of States/UTs, District Collectors, State and District field officers, Officers of Central and State Administrative Training Institutes.
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Source attribution: Press Information Bureau, Government of India.