PM Modi tasks entire Council of Ministers to develop resources for further improving governance
The Hindu
All the 77 Ministers in the Council are part of one of these eight groups, each comprising nine to ten Ministers with one Union Minister designated as a group coordinator, sources said
In a major push for a hands-on approach to governance, the Modi Government is planning to rope in young professionals, seek suggestions from retiring officials and make the best use of technology for project monitoring, besides various other steps to be overseen by eight different groups comprising of members from the entire Council of Ministers, sources said.
The 77 Ministers have been divided into eight groups to develop technology-based resources, create a pool of professionals for recruiting in their teams and other similar initiatives to be adopted in the offices of all Ministers’ offices to bring more transparency and further improve and efficiency of the Modi Government, the sources said.
This exercise of dividing the Ministers into eight groups was done following ‘Chintan Shivirs’ (brainstorming sessions) of the entire Council that were chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with each meeting lasting for nearly five hours.