India's PMO Gets A Discourse Of Strategy And Management From Malaysia - Report

NEW DELHI (India), Aug 26 (Bernama) -- The top brass of India's Prime Minister's Office (PMO) were recently given a discourse on management style and strategies from Malaysia's Minister in the Prime Minister's Department, Idris Jala, that can be adopted by the Indian government. According to the Economic Times, Idris held a two-hour discourse for top PMO officials on managing multiple complex issues and ensuring effective and timely implementation during his recent visit to the capital. The Malaysian Minister had suggested that India's Prime Minister, Narendra Modi's office create a new Nation Management Office to monitor the implementation and delivery of its major goals, using the Pemandu model adopted for Malaysia's national transformation programme launched in 2009. Pemandu refers to the new Performance Management and Delivery Unit set up in the Malaysian PMO to monitor and implement big-ticket projects and programmes. "From his days as the Gujarat Chief Minister, the PM (Modi) has been familiar with and keenly interested in the Malaysian approach that has boosted its growth and development indicators dramatically in the past five years, and was keen that PMO officials imbibe from it," The English Daily's Vikas Dhoot wrote, quoting an unnamed person aware of the development. According to the report, a formal proposal for assisting India to implement the Pemandu model is expected to be sent by the Malaysian Prime Minister in coming weeks. The Malaysian Pemandu is housed in the PMO and is implementing economic and government transformation programmes that have delivered great results for the Southeast Asian economy since 2009. --BERNAMA