Fri. Mar 29th, 2024

As the Presidential elections are nearing, due in July this year and the Cabinet Ministers are like to face reshuffle, Prime Ministers Offices has ordered details about movement of files in the ministers offices.

This exercise is ordered by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in order to asses the performance of the Ministers. The ministers have been asked to submit details of the files they received in their offices between June 1, 2014 (five days after the government took charge) and May 31, 2017.

The PMO has sought to know the period within which the files were cleared along with the details of files which were pending till May 31.

The forms sent to the ministers offices to submit the details are divided into five columns with subheads – opening balance, files received during period, total files, disposed, pending at the end of period and breakup of pending files. The breakup of pending files is further divided into – 15 days, 15 days to one month and one month to three months.

Prime Ministers Office has also seeked explanation of the action taken on cases forwarded to respective ministries, regarding the complaints and letters which were written to the prime minister on his email ID or on the PMO public grievances portal.