Indian Polity Quiz: Governance & e – Governance | 16 June, 2021

Open Government Data (OGD) Platform India – data.gov.in – is a platform for supporting Open Data initiative of Government of India.

• The portal is intended to be used by Government of India Ministries/ Departments their organizations to publish datasets, documents, services, tools and applications collected by them for public use.
• It intends to increase transparency in the functioning of Government and also open avenues for many more innovative uses of Government Data to give different perspective.
• The Open Government Data Platform India is a joint initiative of Government of India and US Government.
• Open Government Data Platform India is also packaged as a product and made available in open source for implementation by countries globally.

Source: Mygov.com

e-Pramaan is a National e-Authentication service offered by DeitY.

• e-Pramaan provides a simple, convenient and secure way for the users to access government services via internet/mobile as well as for the government to assess the authenticity of the users.
• e-Pramaan builds up confidence and trust in online transactions and encourages the use of the e-services as a channel for service delivery.

Source: Press Information Bureau

Meghalaya became the first state in India to operationalize a law that makes social audit of government programmes and schemes a part of government practice.

Chief Minister of Meghalaya launched ‘The Meghalaya Community Participation and Public Services Social Audit Act, 2017’, at a national convention in Shillong.

Source: Governance in India by Laxmikanth

Legal Information Management and Briefing System (LIMBS) is a web-based application created by the Department of Legal Affairs under the Ministry of Law and Justice.

• The idea is to make the legal data available at one single point and streamline the procedure of litigation matters conducted on behalf of Union of India.
• It is in line with Digital India to digitalize the details of court cases and bring various stakeholders on a single platform.

• At present it is applicable to civil cases only.

Source: The Hindu

COMMIT (Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training) is developed by DoPT in collaboration with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

• Comprehensive Online Modified Modules on Induction Training (COMMIT) for State Government officials.

• The objective of this training programme is to improve the public service delivery mechanism and provide citizen centric administration through capacity building of officials who interact with the citizens on day-to-day basis.
• Advantage of COMMIT is that it is cost effective and has the potential to cover about 3.3 lakh officials annually, compared to 10,000 officials under existing 12-Day Induction Training Programme (ITP).

Source: Press Information Bureau

The National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), India is a quasi-judicial commission in India which was set up in 1988 under the Consumer Protection Act of 1986.

Its head office is in New Delhi. The commission is headed by a sitting or retired judge of the Supreme Court of India.

Source: Governance in India by Laxmikanth

The Law Commission of India is a non-statutory body constituted by the Government of India from time to time.

• The Commission was originally constituted in 1955 and is re-constituted every three years.
• The tenure of twenty-first Law Commission of India was up to 31st August, 2018.
• The various Law Commissions have been able to make important contribution towards the progressive development and codification of Law of the country.
• The Law Commission has so far submitted 277 reports.

Source: Governance in India by Laxmikanth

The Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT) was set up in 1985 with the principal bench at Delhi and additional benches in different states.

• At present, it has 17 regular benches, 15 of which operate at the principal seats of high courts and the remaining two at Jaipur and Lucknow.
• These benches also hold circuit sittings at other seats of high courts.
• The CAT exercises original jurisdiction in relation to recruitment and all service matters of public servants covered by it.
• Its jurisdiction extends to the all-India services, the Central civil services, civil posts under the Centre and civilian employees of defence services.
• However, the members of the defence forces, officers and servants of the Supreme Court and the secretarial staff of the Parliament are not covered by it.

• The CAT is not bound by the procedure laid down in the Civil Procedure Code of 1908. It is guided by the principles of natural justice.
• These principles keep the CAT flexible in approach. Only a nominal fee of 50 is to be paid by the applicant. The applicant may appear either in person or through a lawyer.

Source: Laxmikanth

The Pension Fund Regulatory & Development Authority Act was passed on 19th September, 2013 and the same was notified on 1st February, 2014.

• PFRDA is regulating NPS, subscribed by employees of Govt. of India, State Governments and by employees of private institutions/organizations & unorganized sectors.

• Atal Pension Yojana (APY), a pension scheme launched by Government of India and run by PFRDA is focused on the unorganized sector workers.
• Under the APY, minimum guaranteed pension of Rs. 1,000/- or 2,000/- or 3,000/- or 4,000 or 5,000/- per month will start after attaining the age of 60 years depending on the contributions by the subscribers for their chosen pension amount.

Source: The Hindu

eShakti or Digitization of SHGs is an initiative of Micro Credit and Innovations Department of NABARD in line with our Hon’ble PM statement, ‘we move with the dream of electronic digital India.’

• Digital India is an Rs 1.13-lakh crore initiative of Government of India to integrate the government departments and the people of India and to ensure effective governance. It is to “transform India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy”.
• Keeping in view the Government of India’s mission for creating a digital India, NABARD launched a project for digitization of all Self-Help Group (SHG) in the country.
• The project is being implemented in 250 districts across the country.

Source: Indian Express