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Indian PM cracks whip on non-performing bureaucrats

Xinhua, January 28, 2016 Adjust font size:

Upset over the increasing number of complaints from people, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has finally cracked the whip on non-performing bureaucrats.

Sources said Thursday that the prime minister has ordered "strictest action" against the officials responsible, including their sacking.

"At a meeting Wednesday evening, he directed the secretaries of government departments to devise a mechanism to redress public grievances fast and take action against erring officials," sources said.

Modi, known as a "man of action", has been mulling forced retirement of non-performing officials above the age of 50 in a bid to clean up the bureaucracy plagued by redtape.

The prime minister has sacked a few top bureaucrats for non-performance since his government came to power in 2014. Endit