Venkaiah Naidu gives a ten-point charter to Urban Development officials

Quick decision making and team spirit top the minister's priority list

Urban Development and Housing Minister Venkaiah Naidu today suggested a ten-point charter to senior officials to enable effective governance. The minister, in his address to over 130 under secretaries, deputy secretaries, directors, joint secretaries and secretaries, urged them to reorient their attitude and approach to enable the government to fulfill the mandate of rapid and inclusive economic growth.

The charter includes elevating individual conscience to a higher level in the cause of nation building, internalise the attitudes of punctuality, discipline, dedication and righteousness, promote delegation of responsibilities, quick decision making and team spirit.

During a 50-minute meeting, Naidu stressed on the need for speedy decision making and creating an enabling environment to facilitate the much desired flow of private investments into urban development and housing initiatives, according to an official statement.

Minister of State for Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation Babul Supriyo and secretaries of both the ministries also attended the meeting.

Naidu urged the officials to "move away from the attitude of playing safe and risk aversion resulting in delayed decision making to one of being pro-active and innovative with the objective of improving the ease of doing business".

He also said that the perception of India being a "bureaucratic nightmare" needs to be changed at the earliest and a beginning in this direction has already been made with Narendra Modi becoming the Prime Minister.

Besides, the minister asked them to elevate individual conscience to a higher level in the cause of nation building and to internalise the attitudes of punctuality, discipline, dedication and righteousness.

He advocated for unleashing of the force of initiative and innovation and to foster team spirit instead of working in silos. Also, one has to enhance domain knowledge to facilitate quick and informed decision making among others, besides acquiring required skills.

The meeting ended with the remark that one has to keep work environment clean and motivating and there will be no compromise in respect of punctuality and integrity Babul Supriyo said that he was delighted to hear the 'elderly advice' of the senior minister. He urged the officials to rise to the occasion and enable the country realise its true potential under the leadership of Narendra Modi.