Identify goals to be achieved by 2022: PM Modi to top bureaucrats

TIL Desk/National/New Delhi/ Prime Minister Narendra Modi has asked top bureaucrats to identify concrete goals to be achieved by 2022, particularly focussing on the development of 100 most backward districts in a mission mode through short time frames.

Modi, while interacting with all the secretaries to the government of India, asked them to rise above the “administrative mechanisms of earlier centuries” and work beyond the “silos” of their respective ministries for the development of the country.

He told them that they had an opportunity to transform the lives of one-sixth of humanity, a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) said. Underlining that institutions must be made “outcome- oriented”, the prime minister asked the bureaucrats to identify concrete goals to be achieved by 2022, the 75th anniversary of Independence.

He called for a mission mode approach to the 100 most backward districts in India and said specific goals should be set on various parameters in definite short time frames for these districts, the PMO said.