Take govt benefits to all eligible, work for society: PM Modi to ministers | India News

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi on Wednesday asked all ministers to ensure that the benefits of all govt schemes and programmes reach every eligible person and to work for society’s overall development.At the Chintan Shivir meeting, Modi interacted with eight groups consisting of eight ministers each, which deliberated on different issues, including improving self-efficiency, delivery, effective communication and trust-based governance. TOI has learnt that the PM interacted with each group separately and the brainstorming session went on for nearly five hours at Seva Teerth.

The ministers will resume the exercise on Thursday. “PM went to each table to take part in the discussion and made suggestions as well. It was an altogether different experience. More such sessions will be held in the future. All discussions were centred on overall development, with a focus on women and youth,” said a source.The two-day brainstorming session is aimed at stocktaking, improving coordination, preparing govt’s future agenda, future planning and reviewing work underway on welfare schemes, among other issues. A similar exercise is expected to be held next week as well.A similar exercise was also conducted on Oct 21, 2021. At that time, the deliberations focused on governance and policy making. The exercise is aimed at helping ministers better understand the issues being faced by government.