In an extensive interaction with secretaries of various union ministries and departments on Monday evening, Modi asked them to encourage people’s participation in key policy planning. Union Ministers Rajnath Singh, Amit Shah, Nirmala Sitharaman and Dr. Jitendra Singh, were present at PM Modi’s meeting with Secretaries of Government of India. This was PM’s first meeting with top bureaucrats after he assumed office for the second term last month. In his previous stint, he had been directly interacting with secretaries, who are the key bureaucrats that help the government in framing policies and implementing them. The interactions were mainly focused on officers’ ideas and experiences on various governance issues such as digital and smart governance, administrative procedures and accountability, transparency, doubling of farmers’ income, skill development, consumer rights and environment protection.

Source: Hindustan Times June 10, 2019 16:12 UTC