Indian Chief Secretaries to Brainstorm on New Goals and Strategy

The Chief Secretaries of all the States and Union Territories of the country will brainstorm on this issue in a meeting to be held next month. The agenda of the new goals and strategy will be placed before Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The conference will now focus more on delivering results and not just schemes to the States. Developing administrative accountability and result-oriented work culture with better coordination between the Centre and the States will be discussed. For a developed India-2047, it will now move forward by combining all three - administrative reforms, federal cooperation and accountability of the States. Each State will have to identify five specific priority development goals. The Bureau conference will deliberate on better utilization of the potential of the mining and coal sectors. Discussions will be held on making government services more citizen-centric through biotechnology, electronics, information technology and science and technology. Remedies will also be sought for bottlenecks in timely completion of road, railway and other infrastructure projects.