Kerala Chief minister Oommen Chandy achieved a rare distinction by receiving the United Nation’s public service award for his mass contact programme which saw him directly engaging with the people to solve their grievances.
The awardees are chosen from five zones around the world every year. Chandy bagged the first prize for the Asia Pacific region category. Chandy received the award from under secretary general in the United Nations department of economic and social affairs Wu Hongbo, at the UN public service day ceremony held in Bahrain on Thursday.
Chandy’s mass contact programme was widely lauded as a unique democratic movement in which the chief minister met thousands of people directly and solved about three lakh of the 5.5 lakh petitions he received. The second leg of the mass contact programme is about to begin on August 12.
The evaluation criteria for the award included transparency, mechanisms to increase public’s ability to seek and receive information in a timely manner and monitoring and analyzing government decision-making and processes.
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