PM action plan
- Centre has prepared a comprehensive 60-point action plan following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s marathon meeting with secretaries of all departments and ministries on September 18, 2021.
- This includes linking birth certificates to citizenship to pushing for jobs while negotiating trade pacts, promoting a ‘family database design’ to drafting a single environment Act that subsumes all other laws in the sector.
About 60-point action plan
- The plan is targeted at specific ministries and departments.
- However, the plan fall under broadly three domains:
- Leveraging IT and technology for governance
- Improving business climate
- Upgrading the civil services.
Action points to attract business
- Doing away completely with certain permissions
- Reducing the cost of starting a business in 10 sectors and bring it on a par with Vietnam and Indonesia
- Automatic notification of clearances
- Single-point access to all government services
- Incentives to states for timely land acquisition and forest clearances
- One comprehensive Environment Management Act that subsumes various laws in the sector
- Mentoring platform for start-ups and skilling programmes for emerging sectors
Use of new technology, data, and IT to improve governance
- From streamlining disbursement of scholarships
- Bridging digital divide for underprivileged students by developing indigenous tablets and laptops
- Digitisation of land records
Administrative reform
- Capacity building – training of officers on various aspects of infrastructure in both the Centre and states
- Infusion of expertise and exposure to latest technologies for higher civil services
- Performance-based working
- Clear and specific targets for ministries and departments just like that for public sector undertakings
- Institutional mechanisms for addressing issues of states given their limited capacities and restructuring of departments through government process re-engineering every 10 years