Maharashtra's Home and Mining departments, headed by ACS and ex BMC commissioner Iqbal Singh Chahal, are among the 12 top performing departments scoring 100% objectives set out for the respective department.

After the formation of Mahayuti government, in a first of its kind exercise chief minister Devendra Fadnavis undertook a 100-day campaign of ‘Office Reforms’. The special 100-day policy agenda of all 48 departments of the government was undertaken in the state between January 7 and April 16 to ensure that the state, departmental and district level administration runs in a people-oriented, dynamic and transparent manner.

Through this agenda, important new policies, far-reaching decisions and people-oriented initiatives were started.

The Home department achieved 100% of its 31 objectives and the Mining department achieved 100% of all its 4 objectives. Earlier in February, in an interim progress assessment, the Home Department was rated no. 1 in the state among all the ministerial administrative departments.

Among other top-performing departments include Water Resources, Rural Development, Animal Husbandry, Ports, Higher and Technical Education, Labour, Textiles, Cultural Affairs, Dairy Development, and the Employment Guarantee Scheme.

The performance outcome of each department was measured through the targets assigned to them. As an example, the General Administration department met only 24% of its targets, while the Urban Development and Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs departments met 34% and 33% of their targets respectively.

Eighteen departments that have been rated above 80% include Energy, Industry, Revenue, Transport, School education, Food and Drugs Administration, Aviation, Skill development, Woman and Child Development, Agriculture, Fisheries, Urban Development (2), Medical Education, Information and Technology, Cooperation, Excise, and Public Health.

Marathi Bhasha, Public Works, Supply and Sanitation, Tourism, Housing, Social Justice, Water and Soil Conservation, Sports and Youth Welfare, Tribal Welfare and Environment are the ten departments whose scores stand between 60% and 80%.

The low-performing eight departments also include Information and Communication (55%), Forest (44%),OBC welfare (44%), Marketing (43%), and Divyang Kalyan (36%).

The assessment was carried out by Quality Control Of India and covered various field offices of all departments focussing of 10 key areas, including website accessibility, office infrastructure, grievance redressal, ease of living, investment promotion and use of technology.