Centre notifies scheme for Prime Minister’s awards for excellence in public adinistration

New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday notified the scheme for the Prime Minister’s awards for Excellence in Public Administration 2025, a Personnel Ministry statement said.

A web portal for registration and submission of nominations on the PM’s awards will be formally launched from October 2 and nominations can be submitted thereafter, it added.

According to the statement, the awards scheme was notified to promote greater efforts for holistic development of India, with focus on saturation approach, collation of data or documentary evidence and focussing on good governance and qualitative aspects with respect

to the implementation of 11 priority sector schemes which will be evaluated collectively under the scheme.

Under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the communication said, the entire concept and format of the PM’s excellence award has undergone a revolutionary change since 2014.

The objective of the scheme is to encourage constructive competition, innovation, replication and institutionalisation of best practices, it added.

The emphasis was stated to be on good governance, qualitative achievement and last mile connectivity, rather than on achievement of quantitative targets.

This year’s award scheme aims to recognise the performance of the district collector through targeted individual beneficiaries and implementation with a saturation approach.