I was impressed when I read that Modi was trying to reform the national bureaucracy. Appraisals had been made online, and nearly 400 govt. servants had been prematurely retired or faced salary cuts for non-performance or corruption. That was well and good - until I read that Modi had abandoned the Results Framework Document (RFD) from the UPA years that listed initiatives that each ministry intended to take in a year with three or four milestones.
The article goes on to state that ''RFDs, issued at the beginning of a year, were uploaded on the respective website of each entity. It served a benchmark for comparison of actual achievement of each ministry and its appendages at the end of year. Many journalists and analysts used RFD as objective source of bench-marking performance of ministries. Modi Government, whose aversion to transparency is monumental, obviously realized that it would be subjected to criticism more frequently if it continued and improved RFDs. Hence it quietly did away with RFDs in 2015-16 without making any disclosure!'
However UPA Govt. had 'developed cold feet in embracing bold accountability norms ' which Modi Government is now trying to do.
The article goes on to state that ''RFDs, issued at the beginning of a year, were uploaded on the respective website of each entity. It served a benchmark for comparison of actual achievement of each ministry and its appendages at the end of year. Many journalists and analysts used RFD as objective source of bench-marking performance of ministries. Modi Government, whose aversion to transparency is monumental, obviously realized that it would be subjected to criticism more frequently if it continued and improved RFDs. Hence it quietly did away with RFDs in 2015-16 without making any disclosure!'
However UPA Govt. had 'developed cold feet in embracing bold accountability norms ' which Modi Government is now trying to do.
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