Feel free to contact me: PM Modi to ministers

July 06, 2016 09:41

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has promised accessibility to newly-appointed ministers of state , even as he emphasised the need for them to quickly familiarize themselves with their new assignments.

"Please feel free to contact me whenever you need to," Modi told the new ministers, a statement meant to assuage the perennial grouse of junior ministers that they don't get to meet the PM because of the intervening layer of Cabinet ministers.

The PM also emphasized the importance of MOSs, saying he saw them playing an important role in his government.

However, Modi also said the ministers should lose no time in learning the requirements of their jobs, saying that after becoming PM, he focused for four months on learning about the requirements of his new role.

He said the ministers should avoid being feted and, instead, prepare for the forthcoming Parliament session. "Felicitations can be put on hold until after August 15," the PM is learnt to have told the new members of the ministerial team.

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