New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi abolished four cabinet committees which includes one dealing with Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) on Tuesday. He also decided to reconstitute five top cabinet panels that deal with Security, Economic affairs, Political and Parliamentary affairs and appointments.
The decision to do away with cabinet committees dealing with Prices, World Trade Organisation, UIDAI and natural calamities comes ten days after the Modi administration scrapped all the groups of ministers set up by the UPA government to deal with prickly policy proposals.
Cabinet secretary of P V Narasimha Rao, Naresh Chandra said, “What happened in the UPA’s decade-long rule – a dozen cabinet committees and over 100 groups of ministers to take decisions — was unprecedented.”
He also said, “From Jawaharlal Nehru’s time, India has typically had just five crucial cabinet committees dealing with security, economic affairs, political affairs and routine things like appointments and accommodation.”
Chandra welcomed the move of Modi to revert to these core panels for decisions. Decisions on the UPA’s flagship project, UIDAI, whose future role is uncertain under the new government, will be brought to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs.
Bureau Report
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