Here's Fadnavis' plan of action for Maharashtra

November 01, 2014 15:28

Newly-appointed Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis plans to develop his office on the lines of that of the prime minister to ensure faster and efficient working of his administration.

"I am in the process of developing the office of the chief minister on the lines of the Prime Minister's Office where a set of select bureaucrats assist the ministers in case they are not able to carry out certain tasks," Fadnavis told reporters today, a day after being sworn-in as the state's first BJP CM.

The strengthening of the CMO will remove the bottlenecks and pendency of work would be reduced when bureaucrats enter the scene to help ministers, he said.

On the demand for abolition of local body tax, Fadnavis said he was contemplating introduction of turnover tax on VAT.

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