Thursday, April 12, 2012

Port sector review

http://pmindia.gov.in/press-details.php?nodeid=1423
The communication from the PMO on the Public-Private partnership initiatives for the country's ports is glad news. As noted, the security clearance from the Ministries of Defence, Home and Envrionment has been the major bottleneck for such initiatives like dredging towards increasing the port capacity. I would like to highlight the need for having a defined Response Level Agreement for every ministry for such clearances that affect such large scale projects. We need to categorize the type of clearances and their priority level and set a response time for every Ministry. I would assume the PMO headed by the Prime Minster will review such administrative bottlenecks by having regular meetings with the concerned ministries. I would assume the government already has such governance structure with the steering committee in place to oversee the Projects. We have to review the governance structure at all levels and come up with new processes and methodologies to remove the unwanted bottlenecks/delays/red-tapism and make the roles(not the persons) responsible for the delays. Such a revamp of governance is the need of the hour to achieve faster processing of administrative tasks and better governance

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