Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee on Saturday asked the government machinery to change its mindset and accelerate the pace of implementation of the reform process. ''ALL the four different governments (in the country) during the decade have been disappointed at the slow pace with which decisions get translated into actions'', he said inaugurating the 73rd annual session of FICCI. ''I am disheartened that, overall, the system of implementation still works with the same old mindset, a mindset in which there is no transparent accountability and no drive to meet stipulated targets and deadlines'', he said, adding ''the government machinery, however, shows no such sense of impatience and urgency.”
''We are not lacking in the political will to carry forward the reform process. The senior levels of bureaucracy are wedded to the reforms agenda'', he said, adding on the whole the system of implementation had not been fast.
Vajpayee said the government is committed to carry forward the next and more difficult phase of reforms and the strategic management group constituted by him had begun its work in this direction in right earnest. Bureau Report