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Union Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Science and Technology Jitendra Singh has said that the projected Quantum Data Centre successful Amaravati, the Department of Space’s program to found a 2nd motorboat pad astatine Sriharikota to enactment aboriginal missions, and the people of mounting up the Bharat International Space Station by 2035 would underscore Andhra Pradesh’s captious relation successful India’s maturation story.
Dr. Singh was speaking astatine the 28th National Conference connected e-Governance (NCeG) 2025 held successful Visakhapatnam connected Monday. On the taxable of the conference, helium said “Viksit Bharat @2047” is not conscionable aspirational but a guiding principle. He outlined 4 hallmarks of governance reforms implicit the past decade—ease of governance translating into easiness of living, extended usage of technology, futuristic vision, and socio-economic impact.
Recalling 2014 arsenic a turning point, Dr. Singh said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mantra of “maximum governance, minimum government” translated into transparency, citizen-centric policies, zero tolerance for corruption, time-bound procedures, and beardown grievance redressal mechanisms.
Highlighting citizen-focused reforms, helium pointed to initiatives specified arsenic online RTI applications, women-friendly measures including extended maternity and childcare leave, and Mission Karmayogi modules for capableness gathering successful the civilian services.
He besides referred to the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances’ (DARPG) Special Campaign launched successful 2022 to amended bureau functioning. “In 3 years, the section generated astir ₹33,000 crore done disposal of scrap, mostly electronic. This magnitude is comparable to the yearly fund of respective ministries and astir adjacent to the outgo of 3 abstraction missions,” helium said. The run besides freed implicit 7 lakh quadrate metres of bureau space.
Later, Dr. Singh presented awards to Central, State, and District authorities, Gram Panchayats, and world and probe institutions for champion practices successful e-Governance. A full of 10 Gold Awards, 6 Silver Awards, and 3 Jury Awards were conferred crossed six categories.
