NEW DELHI: Over 2,000 rules and laws were scrapped by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government in the last nine years for ease of governance and ease of business, said Union Minister Jitendra Singh.
Speaking at an event organised by the Yashraj Research Foundation (YRF), Jitendra Singh said that unlike the earlier governments, which found comfort in a status quoist approach, PM Modi had demonstrated the courage to do away with such rules which were causing inconvenience for citizens and many of which, he said, had persisted since the time of the British Raj. The ultimate aim of good governance is to bring ease of living to citizens, he added.
The minister recalled that soon after the government came to power in May 2014, the practice of getting certificates attested by gazetted officers was done away with within two to three months.
Within a year after that, Singh said, the Prime Minister spoke from the ramparts of Red Fort about the abolition of interviews in job recruitment so that a level playing field could be provided. Most of the functioning was converted online and in, order to bring in transparency, accountability and citizen participation, the human interface was reduced to the bare minimum.
Further, talking about grievance redressal, Singh said that the grievances redressal mechanism was shifted to Centralized Public Grievance Redress and Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) as a result of which about 20 lakh grievances are received every year in comparison to just two lakhsevery year before this government came in. (ANI)