NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi has asked all secretaries to put collective effort to improve the condition of 100 most backward districts in the country. "He asked them to identify concrete goals to be achieved by 2022 - the seventy-fifth anniversary of Independence," an official PMO release said. "It was a brainstorming exercise where secretaries suggested what all steps can be taken even as they highlighted achievements. The focus was how we all can work together and the PM wants us to bring major improvements in the 100 most backward districts," an official who attended the meeting said.Modi also highlighted how working together has brought expected results in initiatives such as financial inclusion (Jan Dhan Yojana) and universal immunisation (Mission Indradhanush) in the last three years. He said institutions must be made outcome-oriented.

Source: Times of India June 05, 2017 23:39 UTC