PM Action Plan: Relevance
- GS 2: Government policies and interventions for development in various sectors and issues arising out of their design and implementation.
PM Action Plan: Context
- Union Government has prepared a comprehensive 60-point action plan, covering a range of developmental issues in our country.
PM Action Plan: Key points
- 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.
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Action plan to improve business climate
- 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.
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Action plan for using IT for governance
- 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.
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Action plan on administrative front
- 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.
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PM Action Plan: National Urban Digital Mission
- 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.
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PM Action Plan: Targets for institutions
- 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’.