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Work cohesively for good governance: Modi to ministers

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today held a marathon meeting with his entire Council of Ministers and is believed to have told them to work for efficient governance and time-bound implementation of the work

He is understood to have sought suggestions from the Ministers on various matters related to governance, sources said.

The meeting took place against the backdrop of Modi's 10-point agenda which includes increasing investment, completing infrastructure projects in a time-bound manner and exploiting of natural resources, besides giving freedom to bureaucrats to take decisions and implement them.

The Prime Minister has already decided to empower individual ministries to take decisions and implement them speedily. In this regard, he scrapped on Saturday the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoMs) and Group of Ministers (GoMs), a legacy of the UPA government.

Earlier, he had told his ministers to set a timetable for the first 100 days listing the priorities with focus on efficient governance and delivery and implementation of schemes and programmes.

Modi has told his Cabinet colleagues to take their Ministers of State along in implementation of programmes and that he would be regularly meeting them as also the Secretaries individually. He will be meeting Secretaries tomorrow.

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