PM Action Plan: 60-Point Action Plan

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PM Action Plan: Relevance

GS 2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.

Union Government has prepared a comprehensive 60-point action plan, covering a range of developmental issues in our country.

A few days ago, our Prime Minister had conducted a marathon meeting with secretaries of all departments and ministries to prepare a 60-point action plan.
The 60-point action fall under broadly three categories
- leveraging IT and technology for governance,
- improving business climate, and
- upgrading the civil services.

Do away completely with certain permissions,
Reduce the cost of starting a business in 10 sectors and bring it on a par with Vietnam and Indonesia,
Ensure automatic notification of clearances,
Provide single-point access to all government services,
Give incentives to states for timely land acquisition and forest clearances,
New environmental laws in India: Develop one single environment Act that subsumes various laws in the sector,
Mentor platform for start-ups and skill programmes for emerging sectors.

Streamline disbursement of scholarships,
Bridge digital divide for underprivileged students by developing indigenous tablets and laptops, and
Digitisation of land records.
The Cabinet Secretary has told the secretaries to ensure that all schemes/ programmes of Government of India should have a digital component.
Birth certificate for citizenship: Birth certificates would be linked with citizenship.

Capacity building – training of officers on various aspects of infrastructure in both the Centre and states,
Expertise and exposure to latest technologies for higher civil services,
Performance-based working, clear and specific targets for ministries and departments similar to public sector undertakings,
Institutional mechanisms to address issues of states given their limited capacities, and
Restructuring of departments through government process re-engineering in every 10 years.

It is being developed as a repository of all good initiatives undertaken by states or municipal bodies.
For example
Department of Sports has been asked to adopt the Odisha model for promotion of sports at a national level.
Department of Administrative Reforms and Public Grievances (DAR&PG) has been asked to organise all government circulars like the Reserve Bank of India’s Master Circulars.

Niti Aayog has been asked to target poverty eradication within five years.
Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has been asked to plan residential facilities for service staff engaged in construction to prevent formation of slums.
The PM action plan recommends using Aadhaar for bringing together beneficiary oriented schemes of different ministries.
A ‘family database design’ has been developed by the ministry of social justice and empowerment that may be promoted like Aadhaar.
Under the guidance of Cabinet Secretary, task forces were created on ‘Neighbourhood First’.