Modi’s Guru Mantra for governance: Human touch, efficiency & innovation

NEW DELHI: Put in practice of a human touch to governance, give a face-lift office memorandum-circular system, put aside 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 guru mantra for innovative governance.

Three weeks after Modi gathered 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 provide a status report to the Cabinet Secretary. The key points circulated by Sinha are mainly on how the governance needs to be revamped to give it a human touch and a professional 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”.

The Cabinet Secretary has intended for all departments to keep aside 1% of their budget for innovation. The government would also institute an award for innovation among officers.

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