Rajouri district at the bottom of 20 districts of J&K in first ever DGGI.

SHYAM SOOD
RAJOURI JANUARY 22:– The Rajouri district is at the bottom of the list of the first-ever District Good Governance Index (DGGI) released by Amit Shah, the Home Minister of India.
This is big setback for those who have been claiming for overall development in all the sectors in the district.
Press briefing released by the PBI, the DGGI represents Next Generation Administrative Reform in Benchmarking Governance at District level prepared after extensive stakeholder consultations.
The District Good Governance Index helps identify the impact of various governance interventions at district level & provides a futuristic roadmap for improving district level governance with targeted interventions.
India’s first DGGI is prepared by DARPG in collaboration with Government of Jammu & Kashmir in the august presence of Minister of State for PMO, Personnel, PG, and Pensions Dr. Jitendra Singh and the Lieutenant Governor of Jammu & Kashmir Shri Manoj Sinha at Convention Centre Jammu today.
The collaboration received from Chief Secretary, Government of J&K, Arun Kumar Mehta, enabled the conceptualization and formulation of an index that measures the diversity of governance model in the UT of J&K.
The Jammu district has managed to top the ranking of the first-ever DGGI followed by Doda, Samba, Pulwama & Srinagar districts.
The Good Governance Index (GGI) 2021 indicated that J&K had registered an increase of 3.7 percent in GGI over the 2019 to 2021 period.
Strong performances were witnessed in the commerce and industry, agriculture & allied sectors, public infrastructure & utilities, judiciary, and public safety sectors.
Significant improvements were reported in Ease of Doing Business, Tax collection, Skill trainings imparted, Connectivity to rural habitations, Economic empowerment of women, Health insurance coverage, and Housing for all.
There were improvements in conviction rates, disposal of court cases, and the proportion of women police personnel. The Citizen-Centric Governance sector witnessed a strong performance.
In this backdrop of strong governance performance at the National level, the Government of J&K’s initiative of benchmarking governance at district level assumes considerable significance.
The DGGI has helped identify the impact of various governance interventions at the district level and provide a futuristic roadmap for improving district level governance with targeted interventions.