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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Babus to suggest ways to reboot flagship schemes -Yuthika Bhargava

Babus to suggest ways to reboot flagship schemes -Yuthika Bhargava

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published Published on Apr 6, 2016   modified Modified on Apr 6, 2016
-The Hindu

Group of joint secretaries will evolve strategies for greater visible impact.

Ahead of its second anniversary next month, the NDA Government has constituted a group of joint secretaries from select ministries to evolve strategies to put more substance and speed into the action plans for flagship programmes such as Digital India, Swachh Bharat, Skill India and Make in India. The final presentations will be made to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The mandate of this group, which marks a departure from the traditional approach of setting up groups of ministers or committees of secretaries to devise such plans, is to finalise a strategy over the next month and a half to ensure these programmes deliver outcomes with a greater visible impact on the ground before the 2019 general election.

Some new initiatives could be unveiled on the basis of these deliberations during the government’s second anniversary celebrations.

“The idea is to work on the major themes of this government such as Digital India, Swachh Bharat and Skill India as well as initiatives in the health and education sectors,” a senior government official privy to the developments told The Hindu.

Marathon interactions are being held to evolve a fresh strategy for each of these that can be executed before the next general election. The group of joint secretaries has been tasked with formulating a blueprint for each programme. Initial presentations have been circulated to the respective nodal ministries for their comments and inputs.

The ministers concerned have also been instructed to hold discussions with officials at the level of deputy secretary and above to finalise a strategy. The final presentations are to be made to the Prime Minister.

“The objective of the action plan is to take the development model to the next level for quicker delivery. The plans will be based on views of multiple ministries with the involvement of all mid-level and above government officials,” said the official.

Former cabinet secretary Naresh Chandra said, “It is a good move if it helps to improve the ease of doing business in these sectors and accelerates investment flows. Monitoring and setting up committees alone, however, will not work if the officials working at the ground level are not helpful.”

The new action points formulated by the joint secretaries’ group that pass muster with the government could then be added to the Prime Minister’s monthly monitoring system to ascertain the status of various critical projects and policies across the country.

On the fourth Wednesday of every month, the Prime Minister usually meets secretaries of the Union government and chief secretaries of all State governments to review the progress of projects under implementation.

These meetings are held over video-conference, using an ICT-based multi-modal monitoring system called PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation).

Big push: The idea is to kick start action plans for flagship programmes such as Digital India, Swachh Bharat and Make in India

Scheme            Launch Date
Digital India      July 1, 2015
Skill India         July 16,2015
Swachh Bharat     October 2, 2014
Make In India     September 2014

The Hindu, 6 April, 2016, http://www.thehindu.com/business/babus-to-suggest-ways-to-reboot-flagship-schemes/article8438121.ece?w=alauto


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