Prime minister Narendra Modi Five ‘Chintan Shivirs’ have been held with their Union Council of Ministers. The session lasted for over four hours, during which ministers made presentations and the PM deliberated on a range of issues.
Sources said the 77 ministers were divided into eight groups, for each of which a coordinator was chosen. The meeting was called ‘Chintan Shivar’, a contemplation session for overall improvement in efficiency and governance. A total of five such sessions were held – one each on individual efficiency, focused implementation, functioning of the ministry and stakeholder engagement, party coordination and effective communication and the last was on parliamentary practices.
In the first session, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Mansukh Mandaviya made presentations on individual efficiency. The other was led by Piyush Goyal and Gajendra Shekhawat.
Other ministers who made the presentation were Hardeep Singh Puri (Tasks and Stakeholder Engagement), Anurag Singh Thakur (Party Coordination and Effective Communication), and Pralhad Joshi (Parliamentary Exercises).
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and Rajya Sabha Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu were also invited as special guests in the last meeting. All these meetings were mainly focused on improving the efficiency and delivery system of the Modi government. The formation of groups is another step in that direction, largely focusing on overall reform in governance by making ministers a more pragmatic approach.
Smriti Irani will lead the group that will brief all ministries, Mandaviya will focus on office monitoring systems and Hardeep Puri will lead on learning.
Anurag Singh Thakur is tasked with leading the group that will review the work of others. Several other groups have been formed under the leadership of Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan, Narendra Singh Tomar and Pralhad Joshi.
Developing a portal in each minister’s office that gives updates on the performance of key schemes and policies of the Centre, a dashboard to monitor the decisions made by the ministers concerned and a system to schedule meetings and manage correspondence in these groups of the tasks assigned to him.
They have also been asked to create profiles of all districts, states and ministries and develop stakeholder engagement programmes. One of the groups is assigned to set up a mechanism to form a team of at least three young professionals with command over research, communication and other key areas.
Modi government wants to move ahead by taking forward the policy of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Vishwas’.
These meetings assume significance for the ministers who were brought into the government after the cabinet reshuffle. In the last monsoon session of Parliament, PM Modi for the first time asked ministers to spend time in the Rajya Sabha and learn the debate.
The prime minister has often instructed his cabinet colleagues to focus on work instead of concentrating on talking to the media.
(with PTI inputs)
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