The top bureaucrats were invited for high tea during which Modi asked them to share their work progress and difficulties that they are facing while performing their respective duties.
He also exchanged ideas with them and appreciated some of the points raised by some of the bureaucrats on how to bring the limping economy back on track and on issues related to environment, national security, smart cities, education and skill development etc.
Sources said there were nearly 79 secretaries in the meeting which lasted for more than two hours at 7 RCR. Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and home minister Rajnath Singh was also present in the meet.
All secretaries submitted their respective files on ‘work progress’. The PM asked them to continue with the ‘Clean India’ campaign and asked the rural development ministry to concentrate on building public toilets in India. Views were also exchanged on how to stop the practice of ‘manually removing the human excreta’ in some parts of India.
Expressing full faith in the commitment and competence of bureaucrats to build a better future for the country, Modi asked them to simplify and streamline administrative rules and procedures to make them people-friendly.
He also asked secretaries from the ministry of law and justice to expedite the process of scrapping more than 1000 ‘useless’ laws, which creates hurdles in developmental work. He encouraged officers to take decisions and assured them he would stand by them.
Promising to be accessible to all officers, he also encouraged them to approach him with ideas regularly and gave them his personal contact number. He said even junior officials to contact him personally.
BJP leader Sambit Patra said that it is a positive sign that PM himself is taking the initiative for good governance.
He also exchanged ideas with them and appreciated some of the points raised by some of the bureaucrats on how to bring the limping economy back on track and on issues related to environment, national security, smart cities, education and skill development etc.
Sources said there were nearly 79 secretaries in the meeting which lasted for more than two hours at 7 RCR. Union finance minister Arun Jaitley and home minister Rajnath Singh was also present in the meet.
All secretaries submitted their respective files on ‘work progress’. The PM asked them to continue with the ‘Clean India’ campaign and asked the rural development ministry to concentrate on building public toilets in India. Views were also exchanged on how to stop the practice of ‘manually removing the human excreta’ in some parts of India.
Expressing full faith in the commitment and competence of bureaucrats to build a better future for the country, Modi asked them to simplify and streamline administrative rules and procedures to make them people-friendly.
He also asked secretaries from the ministry of law and justice to expedite the process of scrapping more than 1000 ‘useless’ laws, which creates hurdles in developmental work. He encouraged officers to take decisions and assured them he would stand by them.
Promising to be accessible to all officers, he also encouraged them to approach him with ideas regularly and gave them his personal contact number. He said even junior officials to contact him personally.
BJP leader Sambit Patra said that it is a positive sign that PM himself is taking the initiative for good governance.