RAS question
During Good Governance Week 2025, the 'Prashasan Gaon Ki Ore' campaign was organized by which department?
Correct answer: (B) Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).
During Good Governance Week 2025, the Prashasan Gaon Ki Ore campaign was organised by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG).
Explanation
The organising department was DARPG, not a rural-development or panchayati-raj body. PIB states that the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances launched Good Governance Week 2025, to be observed from December 19 to 25, with Secretary Rachna Shah releasing guidelines for the nationwide Prashasan Gaon Ki Ore campaign. The campaign’s focus also matches DARPG’s mandate: it placed district administrations at the centre of grievance redressal and public service delivery, with special camps at tehsil, block and panchayat levels. PIB reports 2,11,098 grievances redressed through State Grievance Portals in the preparatory phase.
Why the other options are wrong
- (A) The Ministry of Rural Development is not the organiser named in the PIB release; the campaign was launched by DARPG under the Good Governance Week framework.
- (C) The Ministry of Panchayati Raj may sound plausible because camps were planned at panchayat level, but PIB attributes the launch and guidelines to DARPG.
- (D) NITI Aayog was not the organising authority; DARPG launched the campaign and issued the guidelines.
Concept
This tests the governance syllabus area on administrative reforms, grievance redressal and citizen-centric service delivery. Such items recur in RAS because Rajasthan administration questions often ask which institution runs a named government initiative, not just what the initiative does.