A futuristic model of governance representing far reaching administrative reform in the Amrit Kaal Period. DGGI Dashboard
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An apt way of describing 21st century governance is “In god we trust, everybody brings data to the table.” As decision making becomes more complex and data driven, it is important to bring greater depth of data analytics and digital dashboards to governance models. The District Good Governance Index is one such initiative.
The Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) has stood at the forefront of analyzing and presenting assessments of Governance in States through the Good Governance Index 2019 and 2021 and the National E-Services Delivery Assessment Reports 2019 and 2021. The GGI framework covered 10 sectors and 58 indicators.
The Sectors of GGI 2021 were
The District Good Governance Index represents Next Generation Administrative Reform in Benchmarking Governance at District Level. This was prepared after extensive stakeholder consultations.
DGGI Gujarat is the first for any big state of India as the Index benchmarks governance in all the 33 districts of Gujarat on 65 indicators under 10 sectors. The ranking brings healthy competition amongst districts to address existing gaps, plan to bridge these gaps and aid decision making tools. 12 rounds of meetings were held between Government of Gujarat – DARPG and CGG Hyderabad in the conceptualization and formulation of the DGGI, Gujarat.
On Civil Services Day April 21 2023, Hon’ble Prime Minister said “when there is people centric governance, when there is development-oriented governance, it not only solves problems, but also gives better results. There is accountability towards the public in good governance, if one district performs well in the same state and the other does not, then the real reason behind this is the difference in good governance”.
DGGI UP is the largest state of India as the Index benchmarks governance in all the 75 districts of UP on 68 indicators under 10 sectors. The ranking brings healthy competition amongst districts to address existing gaps, plan to bridge these gaps and aid decision making tools. 16 rounds of meetings/webinars and interpersonal communication were held between Government of UP – DARPG and IIPA in the conceptualization and formulation of the DGGI, UP under the leadership of Chief Secretary.
Good Governance has been the hallmark of the Government of India. It has always been a guiding light for our public policy vision to achieve ‘Sabka Sath, Sabka Vikas’ and has always assured that the implementation strategies fructify based on the principles of ‘Minimum Government and Maximum Governance’.
With utmost allegiance to the democratic tenet of “We the people of India”, Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), a premier think tank of Public Administration, has substantially contributed to the discipline of Public Administration. This has been made possible only because of the perseverance of its expert faculty-team that has been selflessly dedicated to the pursuance of action research, training and publications in interrelated domains of Governance and Public Administration. The multi-disciplinary knowledge and expertise of IIPA’s eminent faculty stood by us while designing this extensive District Good Governance Index (DGGI) for the Government of Uttar Pradesh (GoUP).
Emulating from Good Governance Index (GGI) that has been the brainchild of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG), Government of India and with exemplary reference point of the DGGI of Jammu & Kashmir (J&K), IIPA has been delighted to conceptualize and implement the framework of DGGI for the state of UP, under the benevolent guidance of Shri V. Srinivas (Secretary, DARPG).
This is a step in the right direction at the right time since UP has been ranked remarkably high in state good governance index -being the growth engine of Bharat. For any development practitioner, it would surely be a formidable challenge to curate, capture, clean, collate normalize and represent data for all the seventy five (75) districts. This data was humungous – there are one hundred forty one (141) data points representing sixty-eight (68) district level indicators spread over ten (10) sectors.
The Sectors of DGGI UP 2022 are
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The process of preparing the Uttar Pradesh- District Good Governance Index (UP-DGGI) began with identifying and freezing the sectors and their corresponding indicators. The index envisaged to include different administrative, economic, social, environmental, legal/judicial as well as some other relevant indicators contextual to the governance verticals of the state.
For this purpose, 10 broad sectors and their respective indicators (68) were identified. This was done after several rounds of consultations as well as recursive inputs from all concerned stakeholders- IIPA, DARPG and different line departments from the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
The next step involved determining and assigning weightages to each of these indicators and sectors. Since all of the 10 identified sectors are equally important for Good Governance, each of these sectors were given equal weightage, i.e., 1.
For each sector, the study team tried to use the similar weights for UP-DGGI as it was for GGI and DGGI of J&K. Weightages were further updated and revised after receiving inputs from the Uttar Pradesh Government to make it more relevant for the state. In addition to this, the overall impact that an indicator has on the sector as a whole was also taken into consideration at this point. Higher the impact, higher the weightage and similarly, lower the impact, lower the weightage. more...
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The Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 2000 for the creation of the state of Uttarakhand. As a result, on November 9, 2000, the state of Uttar Pradesh was bifurcated into two states namely ‘Uttar Pradesh’ and ‘Uttarakhand’ to ensurebetter governance and improved coordination in the region. Impact of Reorganisation on Divisions Till November 8, 2000, there were 19 divisions in Uttar Pradesh. However, after the reorganisation, the divisions of ‘Kumayun’ and ‘Pauri Garhwal’ got included in Uttarakhand whereas a new division of ‘Aligarh’ was created in Uttar Pradesh. As a result, after the reorganisation, Uttar Pradesh had 18 divisions.Therefore, for better governance and improved coordination, 18 divisions were constituted after the reorganisation.
Reorganisation on Districts
Till November 8, 2000, there were there were 57 districts in Uttar Pradesh. However, after the reorganisation, Uttar Pradesh now has 75 districts (Table 1.1). This reorganisation assures that the local government has come closer to its people and also helps to achieve linguistic and cultural unity in the state.
The Sectors of DGGI UP 2022 are
Divisions, Headquarters and Districts in the State of Uttar Pradesh
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Agra |
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Aligarh |
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Ayodhya |
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Azamgarh |
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5. |
Bareilly |
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6. |
Basti |
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7. |
Banda |
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8. |
Gonda |
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9. |
Gorakhpur |
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10. |
Jhansi |
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11. |
Kanpur |
Auraiya, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar |
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12. |
Lucknow |
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Meerut |
Baghpat, Bulandshahar, Gautam Buddha Nagar,Ghaziabad, Meerut, Hapur |
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14. |
Mirzapur |
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15. |
Moradabad |
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16. |
Prayagraj |
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17. |
Saharanpur |
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18. |
Varanasi |
Reorganisation of Uttar Pradesh
The Uttar Pradesh Reorganisation Act, 2000 is an Act of the Parliament of India enacted in 2000 for the creation of the state of Uttarakhand. As a result, on November 9, 2000, the state of Uttar Pradesh was bifurcated into two states namely ‘Uttar Pradesh’ and ‘Uttarakhand’ to ensurebetter governance and improved coordination in the region. Impact of Reorganisation on Divisions Till November 8, 2000, there were 19 divisions in Uttar Pradesh. However, after the reorganisation, the divisions of ‘Kumayun’ and ‘Pauri Garhwal’ got included in Uttarakhand whereas a new division of ‘Aligarh’ was created in Uttar Pradesh. As a result, after the reorganisation, Uttar Pradesh had 18 divisions.Therefore, for better governance and improved coordination, 18 divisions were constituted after the reorganisation.
Reorganisation on Districts
Till November 8, 2000, there were there were 57 districts in Uttar Pradesh. However, after the reorganisation, Uttar Pradesh now has 75 districts (Table 1.1). This reorganisation assures that the local government has come closer to its people and also helps to achieve linguistic and cultural unity in the state.
The Sectors of DGGI UP 2022 are
Divisions, Headquarters and Districts in the State of Uttar Pradesh
| S. No. | Divisions | Headquarters | Districts |
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1. |
Agra |
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2. |
Aligarh |
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3. |
Ayodhya |
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4. |
Azamgarh |
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5. |
Bareilly |
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6. |
Basti |
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7. |
Banda |
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8. |
Gonda |
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Gorakhpur |
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10. |
Jhansi |
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11. |
Kanpur |
Auraiya, Etawah, Farrukhabad, Kannauj, Kanpur Dehat, Kanpur Nagar |
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12. |
Lucknow |
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Meerut |
Baghpat, Bulandshahar, Gautam Buddha Nagar,Ghaziabad, Meerut, Hapur |
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14. |
Mirzapur |
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15. |
Moradabad |
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16. |
Prayagraj |
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17. |
Saharanpur |
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18. |
Varanasi |
DDGI PPT
Way Forward
The State Administration should design DGGI/based performance incentive system to reward the best practices and Chief Minister Award for Good Governance / Practice maybe introduced on the pattern of PM Awards being managed by DoARPG.
Based on the finding of UP DGGI, each Divisional Commissioner should design and develop a sectoralcapacity-building programme for each district under its jurisdiction to achieve the nearest benchmark in its division. For example, the Divisional Commissioner of Meerut should promote the best practices of GB Nagar for the industry and commerce sector in Ghaziabad, Meerut, and Bulandshahar districts to improve their score further. Further, identify areas of capacity building for district administration in the districts of Baghpat and Bulandshaharbased on indicator scores as these districts are lagging in the division.
The development of DGGI should be an annual exercise to ensure continuous improvement in governance practices. Since for the district good governance index 2022 most of the indicators are based on absolute values, this should become the baseline value for the coming years. From the next year onward performance of the districts should be evaluated and rewarded based on delta (percentage points) improvement.
Indicators/weightage given in this year should not be considered written in stone. The state administration should keep revising and upgrading these indicators in consultation with the expert group once most of the districts in the state have saturated the performance on the given indicator.
The dashboard for UP DGGI developed by the IIPA team can further be added with the features of inputting the data at the district level at regular intervals. State administration can use this dashboard to regularly update the data and use it as a regular monitoring tool for performance reviews of different sectors/indicators across districts.
Now based on the success of the UP DGGI, other state governments should also develop DGGI for their states to promote healthy competition among districts in each state. This can ultimately lead to the development of district/local level good governance of all districts in India. DARPG may consider developing a national portal for all 768 districts with help of IIPA
Protocols/codes used for the development of the dashboard for UPDGGI by IIPA team can be used for other states as well so that efforts should not be wasted on reinventing the wheel. Further, efforts should be made to gain api codes of the web portals developed for the monitoring of both central and state government schemes. This will help for direct inputting/transferring of data on a real-time basis which will reduce cost, time, and efforts to develop DGGI in the future.
The Sectors of DGGI UP 2022 are