New Delhi, May 13 -- The Union government has launched a nationwide exercise to compile and document "good practices" in public administration, officials aware of the matter said. An office memorandum issued by the Cabinet Secretariat on April 30 this year asked secretaries to the Government of India, chief secretaries of states and Union Territories, and heads of state administrative training institutes to encourage officers to submit notes on innovative administrative practices and reforms that may be replicated elsewhere. Officials familiar with administrative reforms said the latest exercise attempts to create a structured repository of field-level innovations developed by officers in different services and regions, many of which often remain confined to individual departments or states. According to the memorandum, officers from All India Services as well as central and state services may directly send notes to the National Centre for Good Governance (NCGG) by May 31. It also said the practices could range from "simple procedural improvements" to "complex systemic reforms". The memorandum states that the shortlisted entries will be examined by a scruti`ny committee of senior officers in the Cabinet Secretariat before being uploaded on the portal of the Cabinet Secretariat and the NCGG....