Citizen’s Charter of Sahitya Akademi

Commitment for Transparency

As a national institution of repute, Sahitya Akademi has in place a team of officials and committees, to address grievances, to provide information to public and to periodically evaluate several areas. Sahitya Akademi has a set of good practices that sets the standard of services including speed of delivery of these services.

These are

Central Public Information Officer [CPIO]

Chief Vigilance Officer

Committee for Sexual Harassment against Women

SC & ST Grievance Redressal Committee

Designated Officers Responsible for various functions of Akademi

Parent Organization

Ministry of Culture, Government of India, Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi

Stakeholders

Writers’ Community of India

Public at large

Vision of Sahitya Akademi

Our Vision is to unite varied and diverse literary and cultural traditions of India through literature; to increase understanding of other traditions and enhance awareness among masses about the wealth and ancient heritage of Indian literature.

Mission of Sahitya Akademi

Our Mission is to carry best of literature from language, region or culture to other languages, regions and cultural traditions of India. All of Sahitya Akademi’s activities are tuned towards this end and in alignment with the Government of India’s Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat.

Objectives of Sahitya Akademi

1) To preserve and promote literature in the languages recognized by it

2) To preserve and promote oral traditions of the country and vast literature contained in them

3) To promote literary dialogue among the writers, translators and critics from all the regions of the country

4) To document and suggest means and methods to preserve and promote literary and Culture Heritage of India

5) To unite varied literary and cultural traditions of the country by organizing literary programmes (including seminars, symposia, translation workshops etc) throughout the country, publishing books (in the languages recognized by Sahitya Akademi), to produce documentaries on literary doyens of the country and to carry best of literature in all the languages by participating in book fairs and exhibitions in every corner of the country

6) To undertake literary exchange programmes with various countries in the world, to participate in the Festivals of India Abroad etc to promote Indian literature around the world

Service Standards

Sl No.	Service	Success Indicators	Service Standards	Unit	Data Source
1	Awards	Conferment of Awards in 24 languages	12	Months	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
2	Programmes	Completion of the Executive Board approved programmes	9	Months	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
3	Publications	Printing and publication of books after positive reviews   Reprints (annually)	90         200	Days         Titles	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
4	Tribal and Oral Centres	Completion of programmes and publication of books	20   20	Programmes   Books	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
5	Grants Projects and Schemes	In 24 languages   24 Languages	12   12	Months   Months	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
6	Sales	Annual participation in book fairs and exhibitions Gross Sale	150     3,00,00,000	Numbers     ₹	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
7	Library	Addition of books to the library and number of visitors annually	4000   1000	Numbers   Numbers	Sahitya Akademi’s Records
8	Literary Exchange Programmes	Completion of Ministry approved literary exchange programmes annually	4	Numbers	Sahitya Akademi’s Records

 

Officers & Committees Responsible for Services

Sl. No.	Work	Person Responsible	Email	Phone and Address	Process
1	CPIO	Deputy Secretary Administration	ds.admn@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386088	Responsible for disposal of RTI & PG applications within the stipulated time.
2	Chief Vigilance Officer	S. Baburajan	ds.accounts@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386324	Responsible for disposal of all vigilance related cases with the stipulated time
3	Committee for Sexual Harassment against Women	1 2 3 4 5 6			To meet twice a year or as and when required and look into various issues related and also address complaints received, if any
4	SC & ST Grievance Redressal Committee	1 2 3 4 5 6			To meet twice a year or as and when required and look into various issues related and also address complaints received, if any
5	Awards	Ms. Mrignayani Gupta	po.ho3@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386629	3 tier process involving ground list preparation, preliminary panel and jury
	Sahitya Akademi Award
	Translation Prize	Ms. Mrignayani Gupta	po.ho3@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386629	Preparation of ground list and selection committee
	Yuva Puraskar	Smt. Upasana Tripathi	yuvap-sa@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386626-28 – Extn: 215	3 tier process involving ground list preparation, preliminary panel and jury + advertisesment
	Bal Sahitya Puraskar	Dr Kishor Kumar Tripathy	po5.headoffice@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386629	3 tier process involving ground list preparation, preliminary panel and jury
	Bhasha Samman	Dr N. Suresh Babu	ds.pub1@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23073899	Recommendations of the Expert Committees
2	Programmes of all Offices	Sri Anupam Tiwari	eh@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23073103	Proposed by 24 language advisory boards and approved or rejected by the Executive Board
3	Publications of all Offices	Dr N. Suresh Babu	ds.pub1@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23073899	Recommended by 24 language advisory boards and approved or rejected by the Executive Board
4	Tribal and Oral Centers (Programmes and Publications)	Sri Jyoti Krishna Verma for COTLIT Sri Chandrakant Murasingh for NECOL	ae.ho3@sahitya-akademi.gov.in   sakencolagt@gmail.com	011-23070735     0381-2328415	Proposed by the Directors and approved or rejected by the Executive Board
5	Grant in Aid     Projects and Schemes of all Offices	Sri Jyoti Krishna Verma   Sri Anupam Tiwari	ae.ho3@sahitya-akademi.gov.in   eh@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23070735   011-23073103	On application + Approved by the Executive Board
6	Sales of all Offices	Sri Naveen Kumar	sales@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23745297, 23364204	Through book fairs, exhibitions, distributors, stockists, booksellers, Akademi stalls and offices
7	Library in all Offices	Librarian	librarian@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23386626-28/225
8	Literary Exchange Programmes	Sri Jyoti Krishna Verma	ae.ho3@sahitya-akademi.gov.in	011-23070735	On the approval of the Ministry of Culture, Government of India

 

Public Grievance Redressal

It has been observed that the majority of grievances in offices and departments are related to inordinate delay in taking decisions, extending from several months to several years and refusal/inability to make speaking replies/disclose basic information to the petitioners to enable them to examine whether their cases have been correctly decided.

The Sahitya Akademi has put in place an efficient mechanism as outlined above to address public grievance or any complaint falling under its purview.

Wherever there is a doubt on the jurisdiction of grievance or complaint, Sahitya Akademi places the matter before the Executive Board.

Sahitya Akademi strives that all grievances and complaints within its purview should be resolved completely.

To avoid delay in access and approach, Sahitya Akademi has put its Citizen’s Chart in its Website.

Right to Information & Sahitya Akademi

Sahitya Akademi, being a public authority, abides by RTI (Right to Information) Act, 2005 or as amendments from time to time

The Secretary appoints and notifies, as Central Public Information Officer, a staff as provided under RTI Act, 2005 from time to time

The Secretary, Sahitya Akademi, under RTI Act, 2005, is the appellate authority.

The Central Public Information Officer in the Sahitya Akademi shall ensure that the information is provided within the time limits under the RTI Act, 2005 and so is updated on the public domain (website) of the Sahitya Akademi.

The website of the Sahitya Akademi shall carry information as required for a public domain under RTI Act, 2005 and updated from time to time.