Don’t cite lack of assets for not arising with huge developmental concepts; usher in insurance policies to generate employment; level out shortcomings in current insurance policies.
These are among the messages that secretaries of a number of ministries bought following a four-hour assembly with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday for discussing governance points and challenges.
A supply current on the assembly stated the Prime Minister inspired the highest bureaucrats to provide you with out-of-the-box concepts even when these didn’t pertain to their very own ministries.
“The PM said lack of resources was no more an excuse to not come up with big ideas that would benefit the larger interest of the people,” stated the supply.
More than two dozen secretaries expressed their views and shared their suggestions with the Prime Minister.
The assembly, at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, was additionally attended by National Security Advisor Ajit Doval, Principal Secretary to Prime Minister PK Mishra and Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba.
During the assembly, a few secretaries drew consideration to “populist” schemes introduced by some states, saying these have been economically unviable and would harm the states’ long-term pursuits. Sources stated Modi inspired everybody to talk their thoughts; one secretary cited the instance of Sri Lanka with respect to the “populist schemes”.
Sri Lanka is at the moment experiencing the worst financial disaster in its historical past, with lengthy traces for gas, cooking fuel and necessities briefly provide, and lengthy hours of energy cuts.
Praising “coordinated work” by a number of departments in the course of the pandemic, PM Modi stated secretaries ought to act as secretaries of the federal government of India and never simply of their departments.
This was the ninth such assembly of the prime minister with secretaries since 2014.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
