National Center for Good Governance (NCGG)

About National Centre for Good Governance: 

• It is an autonomous institute under the aegis of Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances, Government of India.
• The NCGG has been set up to assist in bringing about governance reforms through studies, training, knowledge sharing and promotion of good ideas.
• It seeks to carry out policy relevant research and prepare case studies; curate training courses for civil servants from India and other developing countries.
• Background:
  • It traces its origin to the National Institute of Administrative Research (NIAR). NIAR was set up in 1995 by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) the Government of India's apex training Institute for higher civil services.
  • NIAR was subsequently renamed with an expanded mandate, as National Centre for Good Governance, which was inaugurated on February 24th, 2014.
• Objectives
  • To function as a national repository on information on best practices, initiatives and methodologies that promote Good Governance, e-Governance etc.
  • To advise on key issues in governance and develop synergy across various Ministries/ Departments of GoI, and State Governments.
• Governing Body
  • The affairs of the NCGG are managed under the overall superintendence and direction of the Governing Body, which is headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
  • It has Secretaries of 9 ministries/ departments and 5 eminent persons viz. academicians, eminent administrators, specialists, eminent innovators, heads of reputed institutions as members.
  • The Director General, who is the Chief Executive of NCGG acts as the Member–Secretary of the Governing Body.

Head office: Its head office is at New Delhi and the branch office at Mussoorie.

Q1: What is governance?

It is the exercise of economic, political and administrative authority to manage a country’s affairs. It is also the process through which various stakeholders articulate their interest, exercises their rights and mediate their differences.

Source: Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) delegation to visit Bangladesh for bilateral discussions for renewal of MoU between National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) and Bangladesh Ministry of Public administration