Prime Minister meets secretaries to outline policy priorities

Prime Minister Narandera Modi met the Secretaries of all government departments to outline his agenda of governance and his expectations from them. Prime Minister asked secretaries to prepare the future agenda of the departments and directly get in touch with him to resolve issues and expedite decision-making. Prime Minister has asserted that Government’s priority is to revamp the economy and asked the officials to prepare presentations on the contributions their Ministries can make for the revival. With a view of giving the bureaucracy a greater role in decision-making, Narendra Modi held a three-hour-long marathon meeting with Secretaries without ministers. Building confidence in the bureaucracy is a top priority for the Government as it can play a key role in implementing the policies of the ruling government, he added. Meanwhile, many Ministers had already offered a free hand to the bureaucrats. Prime Minister had already told ministers to prepare a detailed action plan for the first 100 days in office and resolve all issues left pending by the previous government on a priority basis. Prime Minister’s latest agenda for good governance highlighted 10-point framework include build up confidence in bureaucracy, give priority to education, health, water and power, mechanism for inter-ministerial issues, addressing concerns about economy, stability and sustainability in government policy, give bureaucrats independence to work without pressure, transparency in governance, infrastructure development, implement policy in time bound manner and people orientated system for better addressing people’s problems.