New Delhi, Jan 12: Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee today urged the governors to play a "pro-active" role in the state administrations with a "total sense of partnership."
"The Prime Minister underscored the need for governors to play a proactive role in the state administration with a total sense of partnership. According to him, it was, in the existing set-up itself, possible for the governors to be a full-fledged participant in the development process," a Rashtrapati Bhawan release quoted Vajpayee as telling the concluding session of the two-day conference of governors.
The Prime Minister stressed the need for evolving employment-oriented economic programmes and assured resources would not be a constraint.
What was needed was effective and purposeful implementation with a sense of involvement and participation at all levels, he said.
Kalam had, in his opening remarks yesterday, stated that "governors have a positive role to play to bring about unity of minds." Bureau Report