In a bid to enable the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) to have a tighter control over the functioning of ministries and departments, the Cabinet Secretariat has asked the concerned secretaries to adhere to a month’s time line in putting up a proposal before the Cabinet for its approval after getting the Prime Minister’s nod.
According to the office memo, a copy of which is with this newspaper, if a ministry or department fails to send the proposal to the Cabinet Secretariat within a month after getting the Prime Minister’s nod, the same would need to be sent once again to the PMO for his approval.
Justifying the latest move by the Cabinet Secretariat, sources said, “It is, though, difficult to specify specific cases of delay on the part of nodal ministries and departments in sending approved proposal for listing in the cabinet agenda note, of late it has been found that the tendency of sitting on the approved cabinet note has been increasing day by day...”