Specialist Advisor
Corporate & Compliance Consultant
Published on: Aug 11, 2026
CPGRAMS Portal
Centralized Public Grievance Redress And Monitoring System (CPGRAMS) is an online portal that has been developed by the NIC in association with the Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DARPG) which provides an effective resolution of public grievances addressed by an individual. The objective is to ensure the online availability of the grievance redress machinery system by providing various facilities to the citizens. Let us look in detail about the CPGRAMS Portal in this article. To now about the UAN HelpdeskFeatures of CPGRAMS
The following are some of the features of CPGRAMS Portal that are listed below:- The CPGRAMS is an integrated application system that is based on the technology which primarily aims at the submission of grievances by the aggrieved citizens from any where and any time (24/7) basis for quick and easy communication between the nodal PG officers of the Government departments and citizens that will be resulting in the speedy redress of grievances.
- The CPGRAMS facilitates for the unique registration number generated by the system upon the submission of grievances online from the people to DPG/DARPG or concerned Departments, Government of India.
- It also facilitates for the Automatic Online Data transmission between Departments/Organisations/Subordinate organizations.
- It mandates the uniform and systematic approach towards the monitoring of the process by adopting a general classification and standardisation of grievances and redress efforts across the government departments.
- The entire processing system would be made compatible a per the need of Central Government Ministries/Departments and its subordinate offices, State Government.
- This portal facilitates the online lodging of grievances registered by the citizens to the concerned Departments and Ministries/Organizations which can be linked to their official portal.
- Web-enabled CPGRAMS can be implemented by the Departments, Ministries, and Organizations by accessing the centralized server hosted in the NIC SAN Server without any requirement of the dedicated hardware and software at their end.
- The CPGRAMS that facilitates the Departments, Ministries, and Organizations to enter the grievances that are received locally in their offices and to send the same to their subordinate organizations online for the quick redress.
- CPGRAMS facilitates the monitoring queries and reports as per the need of Departments, Ministries, and Organizations for the effective monitoring for pending grievances.
- It facilitates the user with the generation of automated notifications like Acknowledgement and Final reply letters etc. for the official correspondence with the complainants.
- This application is most flexible to be extended as per the needs of Departments, Ministries, and Organizations for the quicker and effective redress of grievances.
CPGRAMS Portal Complaints
The applicants can lodge grievances to the Department of Administrative Reforms & Public Grievances and Directorate of Public Grievances related to the following:- Complaints related to inordinate delay in taking decisions
- Complaints related to delay for several months to several years
- refusal/inability to make speaking replies.
Complaints not covered under CPGRAMS
The below listed are the issues that are not taken up for redress:- Subjudice cases or anything concerning the judgment given by any court.
- Personal and family disputes.
- RTI matters.
- Anything that impacts upon the territorial integrity of the country or friendly relations with other countries.
- Suggestions.