PM action plan: single law on the environment, birth certificate for citizenship, employment clause in FTAs

According to the action plan document viewed by The Indian Express, “There is no proof of citizenship in India. Citizenship can be linked to the birth certificate through technology and integrated.

Senior government officials said “actionable contributions” have been sent to all secretaries. Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Guba wrote to the secretaries separately on September 20 urging them to take “immediate action” on the Prime Minister’s instructions and ensure their “time-bound implementation”.

The 60-point action is targeted at specific ministries and departments, but further analysis suggests that they fall broadly into three categories: leveraging IT and technology for governance, improving the business climate, and modernize the public service.

For example, action points to attract businesses include: complete removal of certain authorizations, reduction of the cost of starting a business in 10 sectors and reconciliation with Vietnam and Indonesia, automatic notification of authorizations , a single point of access to all government services, incentives to states for timely land acquisition and clearing of forests, a comprehensive environmental management law that encompasses various sector laws, a platform form of mentoring for start-ups and training programs for emerging sectors. These are mainly directed to the Department for the Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, the Ministry of the Environment, Forests and Climate Change, and the Niti Aayog.

Another important area of ​​focus is the use of new technologies, data and information technologies to improve governance. From streamlining the disbursement of scholarships to bridging the digital divide for disadvantaged students by developing indigenous tablets and laptops and digitizing land registers, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has several exploitable inputs. In fact, in his letter, Cabinet Secretary Guba told the secretaries that every effort should be made to take full advantage of the power of technology. “So all Indian government schemes / programs should have a digital component,” he noted.

In his letter to the secretaries, Guba also called on ministries to speed up spending, especially capital spending. Asking them to implement the budget announcements seriously, he said: “Capital spending needs to be accelerated to meet the target for the current fiscal year. Progress in many departments at the end of the first quarter of the fiscal year is unsatisfactory.

Regarding administrative reform, the Prime Minister placed emphasis on capacity building – training of officers on various aspects of infrastructure in the Center and in the States, provision of expertise and exposure to the latest technologies for the senior civil service, performance-based work, clear and specific objectives. for ministries and departments as well as for public sector enterprises, institutional mechanisms to deal with the problems of states given their limited capacities and the restructuring of departments through reengineering of government processes every 10 years.

In preparing the action plan, the Prime Minister also called on departments and ministries to learn from the successes achieved by others. For example, the Ministry of Sports was asked to adopt the Odisha model for the promotion of sport at the national level, and the Ministry of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances was asked to organize all government circulars like the Master Circulars of the Reserve. Bank of India. “States / municipal agencies have taken many good initiatives. The National Urban Digital Mission is being developed to bring all of these initiatives together in one place. In addition, systems such as the Integrated Command and Control Center can be made available by industry as a service so that small towns can also benefit, ”the action plan says.

The Prime Minister also asked Niti Aayog to target poverty eradication within five years. In addition, it also calls on the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs to plan ab initio residential facilities for service personnel engaged in construction in order to prevent the formation of slums. The plan also recommends using Aadhaar to “bring together beneficiary-oriented programs from different ministries” and also adds that a “family database design” has been developed by the Ministry of Social Justice and Health. empowerment and “can be promoted as Aadhaar”. It also stipulates that all government data must be accessible to all ministries.

“Under the leadership of the Cabinet Secretary, working groups have been created on the“ Neighborhood First ”policy. These interministerial groups can be institutionalized ”, indicates the document in the action points of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.