Manmohan Singh asks PMO officials to 'think creatively'

New Delhi, Jun 11 (PTI) After writing to his Council
of Ministers, Prime Minister of India Manmohan Singh on
Thursday asked officials in the PMO to "think creatively" on
the agenda of the government in the first 100 days in office.

Advising the officials to improve delivery, he wanted
them to be guided by the watchwords of equity, innovation and
public accountability.

Singh emphasised the importance to rethink systems of
monitoring and evaluation and said there was need to think
creatively on the government agenda.

The follow-up measures listed to be initiated within
the first 100 days of UPA returning to power and the pending
reform of regulatory institutions in the area of health and
education were discussed, PM's Media Adviser Deepak Sandhu
said in a statement.

Singh had recently written to Union ministers
overseeing the government's flagship programmes asking them to
seriously address the task of plugging "leakages" in their
implementation. PTI MS
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