The CM Dashboard of Uttarakhand Government was launched on Monday at State secretariat to mark the birthday of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee which is being celebrated as Good Governance Day. In the first phase, 14 Government departments have been linked with the system.
Uttarakhand has become one of the select few States to have a web based platform, CM Dashboard for outcome based performance monitoring of different Government departments. Termed Uttarakhand Achieving Results in Systematic and Holistic Way (Utkarsh), the dashboard would also ensure a performance based competition between different departments of State Government.
The Capital Novas, a United States based company, has provided the technical support in designing the CM Dashboard under its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme, has incorporated 230 Key Performance Indicators (KPI) of different departments in it.
Speaking after the inauguration of the CM Dashboard, the Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat said that functioning of Government system would become more transparent and the status of Government schemes and programmes would be readily available to general public with the Dashboard. He said that the name UTKARSH for the dashboard is apt as it will help in elevating the progress of the State in good governance.
The CM said that the works of the Government departments would be monitored in a better way and it will also prompt a healthy competition among different departments. He said that the data are sometimes confusing and the online monitoring would held in spotting black holes in the system.
Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Secretary, Utpal Kumar Singh said that the new monitoring system would take the State forward on the path of good Governance. He said that the budget allotted to departments, the physical progress of the works and the people benefited by them would now be monitored by the dashboard.
The CS said that KPIs of the departments would help in informing about the performance of department and emphasis is made on outcome based performance.
Giving an example, he said that in the forest department one of the KPIs is the survival rate of the trees planted by the department and not the plantations done. He said that the Government has taken an initiative to reduce the number of accidents by half till the year 2020 and the dashboard would help in direct monitoring and prompt measures.
The Secretary to the Chief Minister, Radhika Jha informed that in the first phase 14 departments have been linked with the system and soon other departments would be connected with it. She said that all orders of CM and minutes of meetings will also be uploaded on the dashboard. Systems of self appraisal of different departments too have been incorporated in the dashboard.
The CFO of Capital Novas, Harivardhan Pandia handed over the dashboard to the CM on the occasion.
The programme was also attended by the Additional Chief Secretary Ranvir Singh, Om Prakash, Principal Secretary Radha Raturi, Anand Vardhan, Director General (DG) police, Anil K Raturi and other senior officers of state administration.
CM Dashboard
The CM dash board is a web based platform to have a direct monitoring of different programmes of the State Government.
The Dashboard is developed by US based firm Capital Novas in association with Information Technology Department Agency (ITDA) of Uttarakhand.
The US firm would maintain the dashboard for a period of three years. The dashboard would have real time data of different departments which would be directly accessible, and the grey areas of performance would be identified.