Saturday, June 7, 2014

Modi prioritises policy, streamlines bureaucracy

Saswat Panigrahi

Keeping with his motto of ‘minimum government and maximum governance’, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has spelt out a to-do list for bureaucrats.
The aim is to bridge the difference between the Government departments and Ministers, to expedite decision-making process and to streamline the delivery mechanism.
The idea is to give bureaucracy a greater role in decision-making process with thrust on transparency and effective governance and to galvanise it by bringing in a new work culture. Aimed at curtailing the proverbial red-tapism, this is the first such attempt in the independent India towards taking administration closer to the people.
There are numerous rules which have become outdated in the current times. Instead of serving the purpose of governance, they stand as stumbling blocks between Government and the people. As a people’s leader, Modi acknowledges this and is working to change things.
Narendra Modi’s Government is swiftly doing away with the archaic rules and working on streamlining administrative rules and procedures to make them accessible to the masses.
This is precisely the reason the new Prime Minister is emphasising administrative overhaul. His message to the Secretaries is a means to that end.

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