New Delhi: Giving an idea of the nature of next year’s Budget, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said it should be “full of new ideas” with transformational and measurable deliverables.
In an interaction with secretaries of various ministries and departments, he said the Budget should be “output to outcome-oriented”, inferring that investments should have measurable outcomes, sources said.
During the interaction over ‘high tea’ at his residence, the Prime Minister reviewed the progress of work being done on various government initiatives, including the ‘Swachh Bharat’ and ‘Digital India’ campaigns, and asked the bureaucrats to take decisions without any fear while assuring his full backing.
While talking about the next Budget, he said it should have transformational and measurable deliverables.
“It should be full of new ideas,” he said, in a hint of how the proposals should be.
Encouraging secretaries to come up with new ideas and proposals for the next Budget, the Prime Minister asked all government departments to advance budget-related processes by three months, so that the moment the new financial year begins on April 1, work could begin as per the provisions of the new Budget in real-time.
“He called for shifting government emphasis from output to outcome,” a PMO statement said later.
At the interaction with the top bureaucrats, Mr Modi said, “Good things are starting to happen... Let us bring openness in governance.”
