New Delhi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, yesterday informally met all top most Secretaries of Ministries and asked them to identify concrete goals to be achieved by 2022, on the seventy-fifth anniversary of independence.

According to an official statement, making a strong pitch to rise above the “administrative mechanisms of earlier centuries”, the Prime Minister said the Secretaries had an opportunity to transform the lives of one-sixth of humanity.

The Prime Minister exhorted the Secretaries to work beyond the silos of their respective Ministries for the development of the country. Giving examples such as Financial Inclusion (Jan Dhan Yojana) and Universal Immunization (Mission Indradhanush), he said the some of the best results in the last three years had been achieved when the entire Government machinery worked in unison, as a team. The PM said institutions must be made outcome-oriented.