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Terms of Reference

  1. Examine the ways and means of creating an environment wherein the officers and staff will respond to the people with courtesy, service-mindedness and a spirit of understanding; provide to the people, at any level of interaction, adequate information about the Government policies and programmes and rules and regulations to generally accelerate the process of decision-making.
  2. Suggest policy to make the administration accountable and responsive.
  3. Examine the ways and means of evolving simplified procedure for Government machinery for implementation of various plans and programmes of the Government without undue delay.
  4. Revamping of Delivery System for effective implementation of development programmes dovetailed with effective monitoring and evaluation system.
  5. To examine the quality of life of Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Minorities and people living in the geographically isolated areas viz., Char, tea gardens and Border areas and suggest suitable measures to improve the government delivery system therein.
  6. Reviewing the process of collecting fair and justifiable changes for the services rendered and facilities provided by the government to the public.
  7. Examine the process of bringing transparency in administration for elimination of corruption.
  8. To examine the need for decentralization of powers and decision-making process.
  9. Measures for creation of work culture with sense of direction where performance and result orientation is given topmost priority.
  10. Areas from which Government can withdraw from direct involvement so as to focus on core sectors of Governance.
  11. To formulate policy for entrusting identified programmes to NGO's and private sectors which could be implemented by them.
  12. To examine the extensive utilization of information technology in Government administration.
  13. Organizational restructuring and consolidation of Departments: for this purpose carry out the functional reviews for selected departments. Including the
    1. Rationalization of activities between various departments so as to reduce overlapping of functions, streamline activities and reduce redundant posts.
    2. Abolition of schemes that are redundant and have not achieved the required objectives and merger of schemes that are similar in content.
    3. To examine the multiplication of committees at district and sub-district level and suggest suitable measures.

 
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