Union Minister of State for Personnel, Public Grievances, and Pensions Dr Jitendra Singh today launched a Special Campaign 3.0 portal at a function in New Delhi. Through this dedicated portal – scdpm.nic.in the Special Campaign 3.0 will be monitored. The Government has announced to conduct Special Campaign 3.0 from the 2nd to the 31st of October this year with a focus on Swachhata and reducing pendency in Government Offices with a saturation approach. This Special Campaign will focus on field and outstation offices responsible for service delivery or having a public interface. Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances is the Nodal Department for the implementation of this Campaign.
The Special Campaign 3.0 will be preceded by a preparatory phase from the 15th to the 30th of this month. Speaking on the occasion, Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Swacchh Bharat Mission in October 2014, and within a few months, it became a mass movement. He informed that so far over 10 crore toilets have been constructed across the country under this mission. He added that such types of special campaign has brought positive changes in the working culture.
Speaking on the occasion, Secretary, Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances V Srinivas informed that under this Special Campaign, the target has been set to undertake a cleanliness campaign at 1.5 lakh sites, freeing up 100 lakh square feet of space which is occupied by dump and junk items and generating revenue to the tune of 400 crore rupees from scrap disposal. He also informed that in the last two campaigns, revenue to the tune of 600 crore rupees was earned by disposing of office scrap.
On the occasion, the Special Campaign 3.0 Guidelines and Special Campaign Progress from December 2022-July 2023 and Monthly Report of Secretariat Reforms for June-July, 2023 were also released.
Secretary, Department of Posts Vineet Pandey, Secretary, Railway Board Milind K.Deouskar, and Director General National Archives of India Arun Singhal were also present on the occasion.
