Narendra Modi fear makes bureaucrats finalize plans in 24 hours

NEW DELHI: Within hours of President Pranab Mukherjee speaking on the Modi government's priorities, some of the ministries have started preparing detailed sketches of some of the proposed programmes.

Sources said that the schemes have been picked by the Prime Minister's Office and the ministries were asked to draw up detailed plans quickly. This is being seen as a move by the PMO secretariat to identify the schemes and programmes that can be first tracked with a clear focus.

In certain cases, the ministries had to prepare rough plans within a day as there was no word from the PMO or the Cabinet secretariat on when the PM will review presentations. All the departments have sent their presentations to the Cabinet secretariat.

On Tuesday, senior officials across ministries were busy preparing "responses" to issues referred to them by the PMO. Government officials said that considering the government's commitment to ensuring hygiene by providing drinking water and toilets in every household, the drinking water and sanitation ministry is preparing a detailed plan on " Swach Bharat Mission".

Similarly, the consumer affairs department is preparing a detailed plan for expansion and detailed monitoring of essential commodities across the country so that early trends can be detected for taking necessary steps.

The urban development and housing ministries are preparing a roadmap for making cities better and more efficient while also chalking out plans to develop new cities. The housing ministry is working out a strategy to enable the private and public sectors to create enough house stock to achieve "right to house" furing the NDA's tenure.