Even as India gears up for the election results on May 16, a group of senior Bharatiya Janata Party leaders have taken up an informal initiative to see what a Modi ministry will look like, in case the party forms the government at the Centre.
A think-tank
appointed by the Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra
Modi, which comprises former bureaucrats who once served with then prime
minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and then deputy prime minister L K Advani, has
been providing the leaders with innovative suggestions on what the new
government should do.
The basic structure of this group is
to revamp the existing approaches to solving problems.
According to a source, Modi does not
believe in an Empowered Group of Ministers or a Group of Ministers to work out
solutions to existing problems.
Modi feels that during the United
Progressive Alliance's rule, there was a dual power centre, and ministries
never had solutions. He is determined to set a new working environment in South
Block.
According to the new mandate,
bureaucrats will get complete authority and power to deal with the policies
enunciated in the BJP's election manifesto.
Highlights:
- Mergers and
de-mergers of at least top eight Union ministries are on the cards.
- A new look is being
considered for the Union ministries of finance, commerce, home, tourism
and railways.
- A three-page report
by the think-tank suggests merging of certain Union ministries and
creating a new department and abolishing certain older versions.
- The Directorate
General of Foreign Trade to be withdrawn from the Union ministry of
commerce and merged with the ministry of external affairs.
- The ministry of
corporate affairs to be absorbed by the ministry of finance.
- The Railway Board to
monitor a new department under the Union ministry of railways to prepare a
blueprint for six bullet trains like those in China. These trains to be
introduced in four years, with collaboration from Indian Railways and
foreign investments.
- Tourism to get prime
position in the new government.
- A new department in
the Union home ministry to monitor the day-to-day coordination between the
PMO and offices of the chief ministers of the 29 states. There would be a
chief secretary-level official to coordinate and present a daily report to
the prime minister.
- The ministry of water
resources to get a new name and an additional department carved out from
the ministry of agriculture and rural development.
- Modi's strategy is to
involve chief ministers of borders states like Rajasthan, Gujarat, Punjab
etc, whenever there is a discussion of the Cabinet Committee on Security.
If there is a resolution, special invitee status will be considered for
the chief minister of the concerned state. For example, on a discussion on
the issue of fishermen would have chief ministers of Kerala and Tamil Nadu
as special invitees.
- Chief ministers of
states to have weekly interaction with national security agencies.
- Popular programmes of the United Progressive Alliance like the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, to be reviewed and revamped.
- By the kind courtesy of Rediffmail.com
- http://www.rediff.com/news/report/ls-election-what-the-modi-sarkar-will-do/20140430.htm
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