New Delhi, March 10 -- The thrust of governance in the present regime is to push India towards self-sufficiency in food, industrial production, defence, security and technology applications.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave the perceptive call for 'vocal for local' on one hand and supported an outreach to the best technology available anywhere in the world for economic advancement, on the other. While he showed great clarity about the national objectives and the pathways for achieving them, his remarkable contribution is in ensuring that the projects initiated for this purpose were executed with a new level of efficiency.

Individual responsibility in the bureaucracy has been defined, the framework of inter-departmental coordination has b...