Without a doubt, the PMO run by Prime Minister Narendra Modi is one of the strongest that this country has seen since Indira Gandhi. Modi’s effective leadership, in large measure, is because of the massive majority with which the country elected him to power in 2014. In cabinet meetings, ministers now turn up thoroughly prepared, unlike in earlier governments where ministers were known to carry a retinue of babus to assist them. Now, bureaucrats are restricted from entering cabinet meetings and ministers are earnestly questioned about the ins and out of their ministries and the many repercussions of their proposed policies. This top-down management has pushed ministers to be completely abreast with the lay of the land under their portfolios.

Source: dna May 17, 2017 02:26 UTC