By TIOL News Service

NEW DELHI, JULY 05, 2017: WHILE addressing 43rd Advanced Professional Programme in Public Administration, organized by Indian Institute of Public Administration (IIPA), the Union Minister of State, Dr Jitendra Singh, said that the Good and Services Tax (GST) rollout and re-monetisation are among the major bold initiatives of the Central Government.

In his inaugural address, Dr Jitendra Singh said, even though the GST exercise went on for over a decade and neither Prime Minister Narendra Modi nor the present Government denies credit to the preceding Prime Ministers and their governments for their contribution, but the facts on record would always bear out that what could not be accomplished in over a decade, was made possible within three years simply because of sincere and transparent approach of the present government and diligently conducted deliberations by Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley.

Mr Singh further stated that these initiatives could be carried forward successfully because of the people chose to stand by the Mr Narendra Modi's decision of re-monetisation because, they trusted that, in the long run, this would be to their benefit and help the future of their children.

Dr Jitendra Singh said that any future agenda or policy planning will have to be based on the aspirations of the youth of the country. He also suggested that the training programmes in Public Administration should keep on board youth representatives whose inputs could determine the agenda, both for governance as well as public service.

Living up to the pragmatism and aspiration of "New India", Dr Jitendra Singh said, the Central Government has scrapped nearly 1,500 such rules and laws, which had turned obsolete and were no longer relevant. At the same time, to make governance more youth centric, revolutionary decisions like self-attestation of certificates and abolition of interviews for job selection at junior levels have been taken, he added.