A 'Good Governance Award', the first of its kind in the country, was set up by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalitha on Saturday, for state government staff who will make a ‘real difference’ in the delivery of a host of services and the reaching of welfare schemes to the people.
Irrespective of whether a ‘Lokayukta’ will become reality of not in Tamil Nadu, in the wake of the Centre tabling the Lokpal Bill in Parliament which also enables lokayuktas as state level ombudsmen against administrative corruption, Jayalalitha sprung this surprise after paying homage at the ‘Samadhi’ of her political mentor, MGR, on his death anniversary. Incidentally, Saturday also happens to be the death anniversary of the late Dravidian leader Periyar.
