As per the recently released report of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister (EAC-PM), there is an urgent need to limit the size of the government in India. Do you agree? (Answer in 250 words)

Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister is a non statutory body tasked with providing advice related to crucial socio-political & economic issues to Prime Minister for policy making. Recently, EAC-PM has called for reducing the size of government in India, which means reducing: (1) Govt. procedures, (2) Procedures executive public bodies participation, (3) Encouragi [illegible], (4) CSO. Need: (1) Yes, required.

"Maximum Governance, Minimum Government" (1) More focus should be on provision of welfare & benefits to public through good governance and (2) Multiplicity of schemes & regulatory bodies need for rationalization (3) Overlapping of Ministries. (3.1) TEP - Ministry of Tribal Affairs & Ministry of Rural development vis-a-vis PESA Act implication (4) Multiple legislations TEP - Land Bearing Act misused for land grabbing of tribals making PESA Act redundant. (5) Promotion of ease of doing Business. (5.1) Reduced clearances, reduced costs & time. TEP - logistics sector. However critics say, it is not required. (1) & Government's presence is required to achieve socio-economic development. (1.1) TEP - 14%. malnutrition - 30%. poverty (2) Government support is required in strategic sectors. TEP - Defence sector, Industries. (3) Role in social infrastructure. TEP - health centres. Therefore, limiting the size of government can not & should not happen in silos. New Public Governance & not New Public Management is required for achieving the goals of "Sammidh Bharat".