• State / Implementing Authority: Government of Odisha.
• Core Theme: “From Citizen to Beneficiary — All Services at One Place.”

• The Seva Setu campaign runs as a 10-day intensive public outreach drive from October 1 to 10.
• It forms an integral operational component of the month-long Seva Sankalp programme (observed from September 17 to October 17).

• Establishment of ‘Seva Setu Kendras’ across every Block and Assembly constituency.
• Designed to serve as single-window clearance, information, and registration facilitation desks for both Central and State government welfare schemes under one roof.
• Administrative Machinery Deployed: Appointment of designated nodal officers, creation/updating of databases of eligible beneficiaries, inter-departmental convergence, and dedicated on-ground logistical deployment.

• Proactive Identification & Saturation: Shifting from a passive approach (waiting for citizens to visit government offices) to active administrative outreach—identifying eligible individuals and onboarding them directly into scheme registries.
• Bridging the Information Asymmetry: Tackling low awareness and procedural opacity regarding entitlements, eligibility norms, and application mechanisms for welfare programs.
• Inter-Departmental Convergence: Eliminating departmental silos by pooling personnel from revenue, social welfare, urban development, and rural administration at block-level camps to process documentation simultaneously.
• Last-Mile Inclusion (Antyodaya): Ensuring public welfare delivery extends beyond district headquarters down to village and panchayat levels, specifically targeting the most marginalized citizens lacking digital access.

Overcoming “Bureaucratic Friction” & Administrative Burden:

• In conventional welfare setups, the cognitive, compliance, and travel costs of accessing multiple schemes often result in exclusion errors.
• By offering “all services under one roof” at the block level, the model reduces transaction costs and systemic leakages/middlemen interventions.

2nd Administrative Reforms Commission (ARC) Alignment:

• 1st Report (Right to Information – Master Key to Good Governance): Recommends proactively sharing official information (suo motu disclosure under Section 4) to empower citizens.
• 12th Report (Citizen-Centric Administration): Strongly advocates single-window service counters, simplified forms, and doorstep delivery of public services to promote institutional trust.

Ethics in Administration

• Practical illustration of Compassion towards the Weaker Sections and operationalising Dedication to Public Service by transforming the state apparatus into a proactive facilitator rather than an unapproachable regulator.

Single-window service delivery, last-mile welfare inclusion, the 2nd ARC recommendations on citizen-centric administration and the ethics of public service are recurring themes for OPSC Prelims (Polity & Governance) and OPSC Mains GS Paper II & IV, with the Seva Setu campaign a ready Odisha-specific example.

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