NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet all 170 IAS officers of the 2013 batch on Thursday for over two hours and interact with them regarding their 3-month long gruelling training stint with the Centre.Six officers have been selected by Cabinet Secretary P.K. Sinha to make 8-minute long presentations each before the Prime Minister followed by a brief Q&A session – in what will be a unprecedented interaction of the PM with the 170 officers who were specially made to undergo the 13-week-long hands-on training with central ministries on Modi’s insistence. The presentations by officers Shashanka K, Neilenthang Telien, T. Prabhushankar, Shailesh Kumar Yadav, Divya Mittal and Himanshu Shukla will be on topics like ‘Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat’, ‘Communication Strategy for Government’, ‘Mudra Scheme’ and ‘Soil Health Card Scheme’ and suggestions how the schemes can be improved and made more people-friendly. Previously, trainee officers joined straight in their respective state cadres after their training in Mussourie.A senior government official said the PM was keen for a “feedback session” with the officers on their understanding of the quality of functioning of his government and citizen-outreach – ET was the first to report on September 22 that the PM will be chairing such a session at the end of the training stint. The Ek Bharat Shreshth Bharat initiative was launched by Modi on October 31 on birth anniversary of Sardar Patel to boost the existing cultural connect between different parts of the country, enhance interaction between people living in different states and a state connecting with another on a reciprocal basis. Earlier this year, Modi also launched the Soil Health Card Scheme to focus on health of soil in agricultural areas of the country to boost productivity and the Mudra Scheme to support bank loans to small entrepreneurs.The six best presentations have been selected by Sinha out of presentations made by all 170 officers who were posted as ‘assistant secretaries’ with ministries. Sinha, PM’s Principal Secretary Nripendra Misra and MoS in PMO, Jitendra Singh will also be present at the interactive session to be held at DRDO Bhawan on Thursday. All 170 trainee officers were earlier allotted desks in various ministries pertaining to Modi Government’s flagship programmes with an idea that this would give the officer an opportunity to look at the same policy project both from the Centre as well as the field point of view. In the last weeks of their training, the officers were asked to come up with a presentation to their respective secretary on two processes that can be simplified or modified and also bring files handed by them to their logical end.Modi had for the first time ensured this year that trainee IAS officers first serve a stint in the Centre to understand how the central government functions so that they do not face initiation issues when they come on central deputation. These IAS officers will be joining their respective state cadres in January.