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Reach out to 100 most backward districts: PM Narendra Modi to secys

-The Times of India

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi has asked all secretaries to put collective effort to improve the condition of 100 most backward districts in the country. In his interaction with the top bureaucrats on Monday, the PM said this should be adopted on a mission mode and the various departments work as a team and not in silos to ensure the goal is achieved during "definite short time-frames".

Sources said Modi also reached out to the secretaries to "talk frankly", which is being seen as an indication of how the PM is open to listen to their honest views on different issues.

However, none of the secretaries raised the conviction of former coal secretary H C Gupta, though the bureaucrats' association has raised concern over this episode and serving officers have been airing their voices. Even IAS officers in Uttar Pradesh have demanded that the Centre expeditiously amend the Prevention of Corruption Act to protect "honest" officers.

Making a strong pitch to rise above the "administrative mechanisms of earlier centuries", the PM said the secretaries have an opportunity to transform the lives of one-sixth of humanity. "He asked them to identify concrete goals to be achieved by 2022 - the seventy-fifth anniversary of Independence," an official PMO release said.

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