Admin reforms report soon

The National Administrative Reforms Commission, headed by former Karnataka?s chief minister M Veerappa Moily, will submit its first two reports to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh by the month-end.

The UPA government constituted the National Administrative Reforms Commission in September 2005 to recommend changes in areas like public administration, strengthening of local self-government and Panchayati Raj institutions. This is the second such panel constituted after a gap of 44 years.

"The first two reports have focused on the Rural Employment Generation Scheme and the Right to Information. The fine tuning of the reports is currently on. By Mayend, the reports will be handed over to the prime minister," Moily told reporters here on Tuesday.

The panel is already looking into another two subjects, Public Order and Disaster Management. "We are hopeful of submitting the reports on these two subjects by June end. The members at present are engaged in discussion on these subjects with various experts," Moily added.

The Commission will also address issues relating to participatory public service delivery, inculcating citizen-centric administration, effective administration at the state level, civil services, urban governance, promoting e-governance and the federal polity.