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India can't afford to be seen as a 'bureaucratic nightmare': Naidu

India Blooms News Service | | Nov 12, 2014, at 12:06 am

#India can't afford to be seen as a 'bureaucratic nightmare': Naidu

New Delhi, Nov 11 (IBNS): Minister of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation M.Venkaiah Naidu on Tuesday urged the senior officials of both the Ministries to reorient their attitudes and approaches to enable the government to fulfill the mandate of rapid and inclusive economic growth given by the people to the government led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in the last general elections.

Naidu addressed over 130 Under Secretaries, Deputy Secretaries, Directors, Joint Secretaries and Secretaries.

During his 50-minute pep talk, Naidu touched upon a range of issues including the mandate of the government, inhibitive nature of bureaucracy, discipline and punctuality, need for speedy decision making and creating an enabling environment to facilitate the much desired flow of private investments into urban development and housing initiatives.

Besides secretaries of both the ministries, Newly inducted Minister of State for UD and HUPA Babul Supriyo Baral also attended the meeting convened to motivate the senior officials to meet the challenges of growing urbanization.

Venkaiah Naidu urged the officials to ‘ move away from the attitude of playing safe and risk aversion resulting in delayed decision making to one of being pro-active and innovative with the objective of improving the ease of doing business’. He stressed that the perception of India being a ‘bureaucratic nightmare’ needs to be changed at the earliest and a beginning in this direction has already been made with Narendra Modi becoming the Prime Minister.

Venkaiah Naidu suggested the following 10-point charter to the senior officials to enable effective governance:

1.To elevate individual conscience to a higher level in the cause of nation building;

2. To internalize the attitudes of punctuality, discipline, dedication and righteousness;

3. To unleash the force of initiative and innovation;

4. To foster Team Spirit instead of working in silos;

5. To enhance domain knowledge to facilitate quick and informed decision making;

6. To acquire required skills necessary for speedy decision making and scaling up output;

7. To promote delegation of responsibilities;

8. To promote transparency and accountability not under duress but as a virtue;

9. To ask oneself at the end of the day if one has done justice to the responsibilities given during the day; and

10. To keep work environment clean and motivating.

Venkaiah Naidu assured the officials that all well meaning initiatives and innovations by the ‘selected executive’ will be fully backed by the ‘elected executive’. He further noted that there will be no compromise in respect of punctuality and integrity.

Babul Supriyo said that he was delighted by the ‘elderly advice’ of the senior minister. He urged the officials to rise to the occasion and enable the country realise its true potential under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

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