(ET)
Add a human touch to governance, revamp office memorandum-circular system, earmark 1% of departmental budget for innovation, and make top officers spend 5-6 days a month in the field — these are the core of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s new mantra for governance.
Three weeks after Modi met additional secretary and joint secretary level officials, Cabinet Secretary PK Sinha has written to secretaries of all ministries with 39 actionable points to “expeditiously” act on and give a actionable points circulated by Sinha are largely on how the governance needs to be revamped to give it a human touch and an efficient turnaround.
The directive observes that the Central Secretariat has lost field focus and officers need to mandatorily spend 5-6 days in the field. Modi had observed during his interaction that there is a “need to reach out to everyone in the team — break the habit of working in silos”.
