<span style="color: #222222;">Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) has published the 10th edition of the monthly report on Secretariat Reforms for January 2024. It has detailed analysis under three initiatives, Swachhata Campaign and Reducing Pendency to Minimum Levels, Increasing Efficiency in Decision-making, and e-Office. The report highlights the Government’s efforts for institutionalizing Swachhata, reducing pendency and delayering under the Initiative for Increasing Efficiency in Decision Making which continued to witness significant momentum in all Ministries and Departments. Nodal Officers have devoted 3 hours per week to the Swachhata campaign in all Ministries and Departments.<br />”<br />”The report said a Cleanliness Campaign was conducted at four thousand 563 offices, over 17 Lakh square feet of Space Freed, over 18 crore rupees of Revenue earned by scrap disposal, and over four lakh 67 thousand Public Grievances were disposed of. The average transaction levels for active files in the Central Secretariat have substantially reduced from 7.19 in January 2021 to 4.58 in January 2024. The report said, the E-Office analytics dashboard has been widely adopted in all Ministries and Departments. In January 2024, 92 percent of total files created in the central secretariat were e-files and 92.73 percent of total receipts were e-receipts. It said, there has been an increase in Inter-Ministerial Files to four thousand 470 Inter-ministerial files in January 2024 as compared to three thousand 808 files in December 2023.</span><br />