01959nam a22001697a 4500999001900000008004100019100005500060245008000115260004500195300003200240520123600272650010301508773004501611906001901656942000701675952010701682  c520623d520623220928b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aPareek, Urvashi and Sole, Nagendra Ambedkar934594  aQuality of public services in the era of guaranteed public service delivery  aIndian Journal of Public Administration   a68(2), Jun, 2022: p.160-173  aThe provision of public services is one of the important functions performed by a government as it ensures the growth of a nation and promotes welfare and justice in society. Public services are characterised by timeliness, quality and grievance redressal in the course of service delivery. Quality is an important component of public service delivery and determines citizens’ satisfaction and trust in the government. The debates on governance during the 1990s were focused on service delivery as the most important component in the governance process. Public services were seen as a medium for interaction between the citizens and the government through street-level agents of the state to promote the welfare and wellbeing of the people. Developments like the Citizen’s Charter formulation and implementation, social audit, e-Governance programme, Public Service Guarantee Act, and so on have shaped the governance discourse in India.
This essay highlights the significance of quality in public service delivery in India, its need the quality-satisfaction-trust triad, barriers to quality in public service delivery, tools to ensure the quality of public services in India and international best practices. – Reproduced 

  aPublic service, Guaranceed public service, Serice quality, Citizen’s charter, Sevottam.  933447  aIndian Journal of Public Administration   aCIVIL SERVICES  cAR  00102ddc40709394680aIIPAbIIPAd2022-09-28h68(2), Jun, 2022: p.160-173pAR127206r2022-09-28yAR