DELAYS ARE SOURCE OF DISCONTENT AND DELAY BREEDS CORRUPTION WHERE TIME LIMIT FOR DISPOSAL ARE REDUCED TO MERE RED-TAPE.

The work of Government at all levels involves processing of papers containing information, instructions or decisions. Their quick and efficient processing is therefore the first step towards improving office efficiency. According to their nature and importance all fresh receipts are generally divisible into three categories viz, Immediate, Urgent and Ordinary. The time limits for the disposal of references in each of these three categories at various levels are kept and allowed for dealing with disposal at the level of the branch officer as below, Immediate allowed for dealing with in two days and Urgent with in four days and ordinary with in a period of six days but the purpose for which these references have been evolved carry no meaning in the present circumstance where it is defeated and reduced to mere red tape and delays occur in the disposal of work is a routine practice of the public offices, even some times the references received in the branches or offices are delayed and are not dealt with expeditiously or with as much sense of urgency as much required. It should be realised that the administrative delays are a source of discontent and delays breeds corruption, and effective implementation of the Government work and policies and programmes largely depends upon an efficient and speedy disposal of the work, where in monitoring of disposal, identification of delays and remedial action is necessary for the need of time and hour, keeping in view the pendency of cases at every levels of the Government and the Courts as well as Commissions and the period of pendency at the levels of the dealing hand is a serious concern where there is no disposal of the pending papers and such cases are ignored further till search for the remedial measures for which the Section officers must take cognisance through report and records of the disposal of important cases and also to prepare the weakly arrears statement at their end failing which it would be difficult to follow procedural compliance of the need for speedy disposal of work and function of the time limit for disposal of references recorded by the senior officers of the department and required for the final disposal accordingly

NEED FOR SPEEDY DISPOSAL OF WORK HAS BEEN PREFIXED BY THE TIME ALLOWED, IN ADDITION TO THE DISPOSAL OF RTI AND THE RTS APPLICATIONS , HOWEVER DELAYS ARE A SOURCE OF DISCONTENT.

After issue of the Right to information and too the Right to public service guarantee Act adjudication issued by the government in favor of the citizens of country it is realised that the administrative delays are a source of discontent and the delay breeds corruption, and effective implementation of the government policies and programmes largely depends upon an efficient and speedy disposal of the work. Sometimes the references received are kept pending in the branches and the offices and are not dealt with expeditiously or with as much sense of urgency as is required for which time limit of disposal of work, monitoring of disposal, identification of delay and the remedial action for systematic decision making and inspections have been found necessary so required for the timely disposal of cases and for which every effort should be made to finalise the cases in the time allowed for disposal at the level of the office and authorities, however it is regretted to point that no nodal officers are designated in the offices for this purpose of the inspection and removal of pendency even penal action suggested by the department of administrative reforms organisation and the DOPT are kept pending against the defaulters. The procedure for review and revision of Annual action plan required for systematic decision making can not be over emphasised, however no correction and rectification of the pointed cases worked out under the provision of monthly statement of cases pending finalization over 3 months even though column (8), (9) and 10 of the format clearly describing for the reason of delay and dereliction of duty so committed by the office and authority with intimation to the Heads of the department with copy to the department of Personnel administrative reforms organisation.

NEED FOR SPEEDY DISPOSAL OF WORK AND FINAL DISPOSAL OF THE IMMEDIATE/IMPORTANT RECEIPT, REQUIRED TO BE MENTIONED IN THE PENDING FINALISATION OVER 3 MONTHS.

Former Vidhan sabha Speaker Shri Radha Raman Shastri has issued a statement today on Monday in the paper (Amar Ujala) dated 17-4-2022 and has criticised the office working in the state of Himachal Pradesh as defeating the very purpose for which the official machinery is working,as procedural compliance has been reduced to mere red-tape and delays occuring in the disposal of cases frequently no action taken by the government.The references received are kept pending and no realisation found necessary in the source of discontent and delay breeding corruption in the system of governance under the Provision made by RTI act publications and too by the RTS act adjudication for which the government offices are responsible for the effective implementation of Government policies and programmes largely depending upon the efficiency of the speedy disposal of work, monitoring,it's identification of delay and dereliction of duty as well as required remedial measures, systematic decision making and inspections for the time limit allowed for the disposal at the level of section officer and the Middle level Officer and the Head of the office working for the good governance and accountability under law code manual prefixed by the government to check the tendency and to ensure prompt disposal of references , and the government instructions have laid down the time limits for final disposal of references with in the following categories of references:- Immediate --One month (2) Urgent -- Two months and the Ordinary --Three months .These time limits are to be reckoned from the date of the receipt of the first or original reference.It is made clear that the final disposal doesn't mean disposal by interim replies etc . and final disposal mean disposal off the case by finally deciding on the issues raised in the original reference and sending reply/clarifications/orders etc.Till then the receipt is to be shown as pending and this pendency has to be mentioned in the statements of cases pending finalisation over 3 months from the month that the receipt of the original reference has become over three months old.The above periods are the maximum limits within which the cases should be finally disposed of by the Departments . However,every effort should be made required to finalise the cases in the shortest time possible.