When and how did it all go wrong?
ECONOMY & POLICY

When and how did it all go wrong?

When it had come to setting the coal sector right, Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that the Ministries existed in silos and these needed to be broken, was bang on. So, as he got the Secretaries to come together in informal settings to discuss a variety of issues, it worked. Secretaries got together and found solutions to many vexed issues that confronted the government. These informal Groups of Secretaries made presentations before the PM in the presence of all Cabinet colleagues. There was positive energy all around.

 

It was a period when honesty and efficiency, and not pliability and allegiance, were the prime criterion for selection to senior positions in the government.


The government got moving and delivered in the aforementioned environment. But then, what went wrong?

 

Anil Swarup who has served as the head of the Project Monitoring Group (PMG), which is currently under the Prime Minister’s Office, in this article, analyses the handling, rather mishandling of the current Covid crises by the government and much more…

 

Click here to read more.

 

When it had come to setting the coal sector right, Narendra Modi’s diagnosis that the Ministries existed in silos and these needed to be broken, was bang on. So, as he got the Secretaries to come together in informal settings to discuss a variety of issues, it worked. Secretaries got together and found solutions to many vexed issues that confronted the government. These informal Groups of Secretaries made presentations before the PM in the presence of all Cabinet colleagues. There was positive energy all around.   It was a period when honesty and efficiency, and not pliability and allegiance, were the prime criterion for selection to senior positions in the government. The government got moving and delivered in the aforementioned environment. But then, what went wrong?   Anil Swarup who has served as the head of the Project Monitoring Group (PMG), which is currently under the Prime Minister’s Office, in this article, analyses the handling, rather mishandling of the current Covid crises by the government and much more…   Click here to read more. 

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