From linking birth certificates to citizenship, promoting employment while negotiating trade agreements, from promoting “family database design” to drafting a single environmental law that includes all other laws in the industry-the center has developed a comprehensive 60 points Action Plan On September 18, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a marathon meeting with ministers.

According to an action plan document interviewed, “There is no proof of citizenship in India. Citizenship may be linked to birth certificate through technology and mainstreamed.”

Senior government officials stated that “actionable inputs” have been sent to all secretaries. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba wrote separate letters to ministers on September 20, asking them to take “immediate action” on the Prime Minister’s instructions and to ensure that they are ” limit- bound implementation.”

The 60-point action is aimed at specific ministries and departments, but careful analysis shows that they can be roughly classified into three categories: using IT and technology for governance, improving the business environment, and upgrading public services. For example, the key points of action for investment promotion include: completely canceling certain permits, reducing entrepreneurial costs in 10 areas to make them on a par with Vietnam and Indonesia, automatic notification of customs clearance, single-point access to all government services, and incentives for timely land acquisition and forest clearing in various states Measures, a comprehensive Environment Management Act that includes various laws of the sector, a start-up guidance platform and a skill plan for emerging sectors.

These are mainly for the Ministry of Industry and Internal Trade Promotion, the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and Niti Aayog. Another important area of ​​focus is the use of new technologies, data, and IT to improve governance. From simplifying scholarships to bridging the digital divide for poor students through the development of local tablets and laptops and the digitization of land records, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has Several actionable inputs. In fact, Cabinet Secretary Gauba  told the secretaries in the letter that every effort must be made to make full use of the power of technology.

“All schemes/ programmes of Government of India should therefore have a digital component,”  he pointed out. In the letter to the secretaries, Gauba also asked all ministries and commissions to expedite expenditures, especially capital expenditures. He asked them to implement the budget announcement carefully. He said: “Capital expenditure needs to be speeded up to meet the target for the current financial year. The progress in many ministries at the end of the first quarter of the financial year is not satisfactory.”

News Source : The Indian Express