Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a 10-point agenda for good governance. Assigning maximum importance to bureaucratic empowerment and good governance, Prime Minister told ministers to prepare a detailed action plan for the first 100 days in office and resolve all issues left pending by the previous government on a priority basis.
Ministries should give focus on delivery and implementation and agenda for governance should be embedded into day-to-day functioning and policy making, he added. Prime Minister’s latest agenda for good governance highlighted 10-point framework include build up confidence in bureaucracy, give priority to education, health, water and power, mechanism for inter-ministerial issues, addressing concerns about economy, stability and sustainability in government policy, give bureaucrats independence to work without pressure, transparency in governance, infrastructure development, implement policy in time bound manner and people orientated system for better addressing people’s problems.
Narendra Modi has also reiterated the importance of dealing with states' problems on a priority basis and told cabinet ministers to share their workload with junior ministers such as state ministries. In order to strengthen the federal structure, there is a need to take the states along with the Centre, he added. Prime Minister has started the process of scrutinizing bills which have lapsed in the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha and need to be revived.