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NDA treads UPA path on GoMs
The Narendra Modi-led NDA government, which called the phenomenal increase in the number of Group of Ministers (GoM) as policy paralysis, is treading the same path. Stating this, the NDA has scrapped all the GoMs and the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) appointed by the UPA government immediately after it assumed office. But, within a year,
New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led NDA government, which called the phenomenal increase in the number of Group of Ministers (GoM) as policy paralysis, is treading the same path. Stating this, the NDA has scrapped all the GoMs and the Empowered Group of Ministers (EGoM) appointed by the UPA government immediately after it assumed office. But, within a year, the same Modi government reversed its stand and pursuing the same old path of governing through the GoM route.
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Officially scrapping all 36 GoMs by the UPA-2 government a year ago, the NDA has now set up 16 informal GoMs. This is yet an another retreat from its declared policy stand and following the UPA style. Despite its serious objection to the FDI in retail trade, the Modi government has decided to continue the policy adopted by the UPA which it virulently resisted in Parliament as the main Opposition.
Interestingly, such informal GoMs are set up not on serious issues. For instance, GoM were set up by the Modi government on the selection of member for the National commission for Women, and drafting guidelines for Internet governance in the wake of debate on net neutrality.
In a remarkable similarity while then Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee headed most of such GOMs and EGOMs , it is now the turn of the present Finance Minister Arun Jaitley to head a majority of these informal GOMs. The policy decisions and changes in law are approved by the Cabinet once they are cleared by these informal GOMs. The first two informal GOMs were set up within weeks of scrapping the system calling it a UPA style of governance.
Such GOMs set up by the Modi government in July 2014 itself include one on cleaning of Ganga and for fast track environmental clearance for major infrastructural projects. These GOMs are referred to government circles as informal as there was no official notification. Some of the informal GOMs set up recently include: Amendments to the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Bill, Seed Bill, Juvenile Justice Act, Amendments to Child Labour (Prohibition and Regulation) Act, the Lokpal (Amendment) Bill, and the Citizenship Bill, etc.
