Roofless Towers
Contents: Foreword/Manmohan Singh. 1. Trichy Community Policing/J.K. Tripathy. 2. Initiative – Changing Face of Thane and Nagpur Cities/T. Chandra Shekar. 3. Lokvani Project/Amod Kumar and A.P. Singh. 4. It-Audit Initiative in Indian Audit and Accounts Department/Gautam Guha. 5. Conservation of Protected Areas in Uttarakhand/Jyotsna Sitling. 6. The Unreserved Ticketing System of Indian Railways/Vikram Chopra. 7. Rajarshi Shahu Sarvangin Shikshan Karyakram: Quality Improvement in Primary Education and Holistic Development of Students/Prabhakar K. Deshmukh and Mahaveer Mane. 8. Radical Improvement in Delhi Government School System/Gitanjali G. Kundra and Ashok Kumar. 9. Extraordinary Performance in Emergent Situation of Earthquake in the State of J and K B.B.Vyas. 10. Innovative Participatory Drinking Water Delivery Approach in Rural Areas of Gujarat/Jaipal Singh and Madhavi Purohit. 11. Asraya – A Programme for the Poorest of the Poor/S.M. Vijayanand. 12. Electronically Deliverable Services (E-Seva) Government of Andhra Pradesh/Suresh Chanda. 13. Orissa Primary Education Programme Authority (Opepa) – Child Tracking System in Orissa/Deoranjan Kumar Singh. 14. Reducing Maternal Mortality and Female Infanticide: Tamil Nadu Experience Sheela Rani Chunkath.
Roofless Towers is an attempt to showcase the initiatives by the motivated and enthusiastic officers from across the country. It includes a varied spectrum from education to advances in IT onto social upliftment namely, Trichy Community Policing from Tamil Nadu to Changing face of Thane and Nagpur and Rajarshi Shahu Sarvagin Sikshan Karyakaram from Maharashtra to Child Tracking System from Orissa. Asraya: Destitute Identification, Rehabilitation and Monitoring Project and Participatory Drinking Water Supply Project bring hope for the social mainstreaming of the poor and marginalised.
This compilation describes the background against which the reforms are being attempted and the challenges that are being faced by the initiators.
Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration was started in 2005-06. Initiated by the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, these awards are boosting the morale of the civil servants.
