The 41st National Good Governance Webinar was held on 30th October 2026 in which the initiative of Rajkot District, awarded the PM’s Award for Excellence in Public Administration, 2024, was presented under the theme ‘Sustainability and Replication of the Initiatives Awarded under PMA’. The presentations included:
(i) The awarded initiative presented by Shri Prabhav Joshi, Joint Managing Director, Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Gandhinagar;
(ii) Sustainability aspects of the initiative presented by Dr. Om Prakash, Collector & District Magistrate, Rajkot;
(iii) Implementation of the key aspects and further scaling up of the initiative by Shri Manish Gurwani, Collector & District Magistrate, Navsari, Gujarat.
The Webinar was chaired by Shri Puneet Yadav, Additional Secretary, DARPG and was attended by senior officers of the Department. The Webinar was attended from more than 330 locations across India with Senior Officials of Administrative Reforms Departments of States/UTs, District Collectors, State and District field officers, and Officers of Central and State Administrative Training Institutes.
The Prime Minister had directed Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances (DARPG), in April 2022, to hold virtual conferences/ webinars with District Collectors and other officers in which past award winners of PM’s Awards (PMA) for Excellence in Public Administration be invited to present their experiences with the objective of greater dissemination and replication.
Since then, 40 webinars have been held so far. Each webinar is attended by about 1000 officials from Line Departments, State Governments, District Collectors, State Administrative Training Institutes and Central Training Institutes.