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Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)

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Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA) celebrated Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav with an exhibition on Environment-Social-Governance (ESG) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).

Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs (IICA)

• IICA is a world-class institution for central civil service training in India
• It was established in 2008 at Manesar in Haryana.
• The institute works under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs.
• It is the only institution in India that has been authorised by the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board of India to operate its flagship Graduate Insolvency Program.
• IICA is headed by the Director-General
• Objective: to function as a think-tank for the Government for holistic advice on all issues relating to corporate affairs and impacting corporate functioning.
• IICA also houses the training academy of the top cadre of the Indian Corporate Law Service.

National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment 2021 Report

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Union Minister Science and Technology will release the second edition of the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment 2021.

National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA)

• The Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions constituted the National e-Governance Service Delivery Assessment (NeSDA) in 2019.
• It was constituted as part of its mandate to boost the e-government endeavours and drive digital government excellence.
• NeSDA is a biennial study (once in two years).
• NeSDA assesses States, Union Territories (UTs), and focuses on Central Ministries on the effectiveness of e-Governance service delivery.
• NeSDA helps the respective governments to improve their delivery of citizen centric services and shares best practices across the country for all States, UTs and Central Ministries to emulate.
• The second edition of the NeSDA study was started in January 2021.
• NeSDA 2021 covers services across seven sectors namely Finance, Labour & Employment, Education, Local Governance & Utility Services, Social Welfare, Environment and Tourism sectors.

Key takeaways from NeSDA 2021

• NeSDA 2021 has highlighted clear progress in the e-Governance services across the country.
• Increase in e-Service Delivery
• Increase in the use of integrated or centralized Portals for delivery of e-Services
• Improvement across assessment parameter scores
• In NeSDA 2021, 1400 services across all States and UTs were assessed as compared to 872 in 2019.
• 74% of respondents of the county-wide citizen survey undertaken during the study, stated that they are satisfied with the e-Services provided by the States and UTs.
• The e-Services of Finance and Local Governance & Utility Services sectors were the most widely used
• The NeSDA 2021 findings reflect the journey of e-Services towards citizen centricity and benchmarking governance.
  

National Monuments Authority

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A team from National Monuments Authority (NMA) to visit Arunachal Pradesh to identify new additions to the list of Centrally Protected Monuments from the state.

National Monuments Authority (NMA)

• National Monuments Authority (NMA) is set up under the Ministry of Culture
• It has been established based on the provisions of Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains AMASR (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010
• Objective: protection and preservation of monuments and sites through management of the prohibited and regulated area around the centrally protected monuments
• Functions:
  • Recommend the Central Government on the grading and classification of protected monuments and protected areas declared as of national importance
  • Monitor and assess working of the competent authorities
  • Suggest measures for the implementation of the provisions of the Act
  • Undertake impact assessment of large-scale development projects such as public projects in the regulated areas
  • To recommend actions to the competent authority for grant of permission
• NMA has been mandated to categorize all the protected monuments and protected areas declared as of National importance as per provision of Section 20 I of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Sites and Remains (Amendment and Validation) Act, 2010.