Ministries

Cabinet Secretariat directs secys to submit notes on major proposed reforms

The Cabinet Secretariat has asked secretaries of all ministries and departments to submit brief notes outlining major reforms proposed to be undertaken by their respective offices, according to sources. Ministries and departments have to submit those notes by March 17 to the secretariat, they added. "All the secretaries have been requested to submit notes on major reforms implemented and proposed to be undertaken," they said. The government has undertaken a series of measures to boost the country's economic growth and promote ease of living for citizens. Asserting that the government's "Reform Express" is benefiting common citizens in a big way, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in an interview to PTI last month, said that his top three reform priorities for the next decade will be continued structural reforms, deepening innovation and further simplification of governance. He has said reforms have helped the common citizen, the menace of middlemen has reduced, and infrastructure expan

Centrally funded infrastructure projects log 16.4% cost jump in January

Centrally funded infrastructure projects reported a 16.4% cost jump in January, with revised estimates climbing to ₹39.2 trillion across 1,702 projects, even as overruns eased sequentially

Continuity and change: Bureaucratic rejig signals shift in economic focus

To begin with, there appears to be a crackdown on the practice of secretaries holding dual charges for several months

Standing, consultative committees of Parl to be constituted soon: Rijiju

Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju on Wednesday asserted that department-related standing committees and consultative committees of Parliament will be constituted soon. His remarks come against the backdrop of certain opposition leaders questioning the delay in constituting standing committees, which scrutinise the functioning of Union ministries. Addressing an event of his ministry here, he said in the past too, the standing committees and consultative committees have been formed around September 15 and there was no delay. While a majority of the standing committees come under the Lok Sabha Secretariat, some are serviced by the Rajya Sabha. Department-related standing committees deal with various Union ministries and scrutinise their budgetary allocations and bills introduced in Parliament. They also recommend the government to bring bills and make policies on important issues. The consultative committees are chaired by the ministers in charge of their respective ministr

100 days of Modi 3.0: Ministries gear up to share success stories

Ahead of the 2024 Lok Sabha polls, the PM had promised the country that a "blueprint" for the first 100 days of the next government was ready

PM Modi shows confidence about LS polls; asks ministries for 5-yr goals

The March 11 document says Modi asked all departments to prepare five-year action plans as part of his goal to lift India to a fully developed country by 2047 from middle-income levels.

DPIIT to meet over 1,200 stakeholders on Sat, may discuss fresh PLI targets

The first-of-its-kind meeting will see participation of all 10 ministries/ departments, project management agencies, and industry meetings

States, ministries to make 'checklist' to manage data for Gati Shakti NMP

DPIIT, which is responsible for overseeing Gati Shakti NMP, has also prepared a document - a crucial resource for clarity and data management practices - for relevant stakeholders

Central ministries gave contracts worth Rs 500 crore to 'Big Five' firms

About fifty organisations and 16 departments/ ministries outsourced work to these consultancy firms, which include PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young and KPMG, along with McKinsey & Company

New secretaries appointed to parliamentary affairs, IT, telecom ministries

The Appointments Committee of the Cabinet has okayed the appointment of Umang Narula as secretary in the Ministry of Parliamentary Affairs

Shrinking of sarkari naukri: Why it's empty chairs in central govt jobs

Ministries and departments are hardly recruiting, but is that helping save costs?

14 social sector ministries integrated data with PM GatiShakti platform

As many as 14 social sector ministries, including Health and Panchayati Raj, have integrated their data on the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) platform, the commerce and industry ministry said on Thursday. About 61 data layers of these ministries related to infrastructure assets, such as primary and secondary schools, colleges, primary health centres, district hospitals, health sub-centres, public toilets, dump sites, Anganwadi centres, fair price shops, Amrit samovars, and dairy locations have been mapped on NMP. Individual portals of these Ministries/Departments have been developed, which are integrated at the backend with the NMP, it said. Special Secretary, Logistics Division, in the ministry Sumita Dawra said that for wider adoption of PM GatiShakti NMP, a comprehensive area approach planning should be focused upon. Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) are to be developed by each social sector ministry to serve as guidelines for data management, which may be replicate

Ministries flout local procurement rules in govt contracts, says DPIIT

Dept says tender terms favourable to foreign firms

CAG flags 24 cases of irregularities involving Rs 348.57 cr in ministries

A CAG report has flagged 24 cases of irregularities involving Rs 348.57 crore related to four Ministries and Departments and four Central Public Sector Enterprises

Govt relaxes norms for ministries in bid to push public expenditure

Ministries are now permitted to utilise unspent balances from Quarterly Expenditure Plan for 1st and 2nd quarter within a fiscal year under intimation to Budget Division for cash management purposes

Imagine: The common good

'I propose a common "offer" to countries that are engaged in imagining a joined-up foreign, trade, defence and development policy framework', says the author

FM urges India Inc to take risks, boost capacities to create more jobs

Sitharaman said PM Modi has asked all ministers to identify compliance burdens for the industry in their respective ministries and departments, and simplify them

Cabinet's 77 ministers divided into 8 groups to expedite work of ministries

All the 77 ministers in the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led cabinet have been divided into eight different groups

Aim to cut imports, Commerce Ministry shares list of items with ministries

The cumulative share of these items is 57.66 per cent in total import during the March-August 2021 period

Govt asks ministries to target 20% reduction in controllable expenditure

However, expenditure related to containment of the pandemic is excluded from the scope of this order.