NEW DELHI: Union minority affairs minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi has rescheduled his public meetings to ensure that he is in office at 9.30 am. His counterpart in consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan has been reaching office by that time and has been holding daily morning meetings with his key secretaries.

TOI found that several ministers have made it a point to reach office by 9.30 or 10am since PM Narendra Modi advised all the ministers to be in office in time and avoid doing office work from home . But there are also others who have just maintained their earlier routine to be in office in time. Union health and science minister Harsh Vardhan and environment and I&B minister Prakash Javadekar have been following the practice of reaching their respective ministries much before 9.30am.

Among new Cabinet ministers , Jal Shakti minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat and several junior ministers have been following the practice of beginning work by 9.30am ever since they took charge.

Sources said Paswan has directed his departments to put a large-screen dashboard in his room that will give most updated information and these will be available at the click of a mouse. It is learnt that Naqvi's staff has been coming to office even earlier. As per sources, earlier he used to meet general public up to 10 am at his residence before making it to his office.

Similarly, first time minister Arjun Munda (tribal affairs) reaches office on time and his staff has been busy ever since he took charge. He has been reviewing schemes and working on 100-day road map.

TOI on June 13 had first reported how Modi had cited his own example of how he used to reach office before the bureaucrats reached when he was the CM of Gujarat. Since then, all senior ministers have given a large share of their work to their deputies or junior ministers so that they learn how government functions and don't feel sidelined. All files will now have to be routed through junior ministers which will give them enough work and help check complaints that their were being denied any major official work.

