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NEW DELHI: The Prime Minister will hold meeting with his council of ministers , (including the ministers of state who are not part of the Cabinet) on the last Wednesday of every month from now on, to assess the impact of the government decisions that are being taken.This is being seen as a new initiative taken by the Prime Minister to address the gaps in implementation of policies, the need for improvement in some sectors and also to resolve inter-ministerial knots that may be affecting the delivery system. The meeting is also meant to get inputs and feedbacks on how the policies are being accepted by the people and whether any correction is needed to make them more efficient. According to sources, these meetings are meant to enhance the governance system.In these monthly meetings, a couple of ministries and departments will be the focus. These ministries will make a presentation to show how the policies or government decisions concerned with these ministries have worked so far. The idea is to review the working of the ministries and hence of the ministers concerned.At the first meeting, ministries related to the agriculture sector were in focus and the respective ministers made their presentations. With the budget session of Parliament scheduled to come up in a month, the government is keen to push initiatives related to farmers and the agriculture sector. The government’s most recent move in this aspect has been the crop-insurance scheme that it hopes will reap good benefits to farmers. With the Centre pushing for the land bill and other such reforms earlier, a perception that it was “anti-farmer and anti-poor bill” had grown, of which even the BJP was concerned. Therefore, the government is very keen to regain its pro-people image. PM Modi also met with BJP chief Amit Shah and his full team of office bearers recently, where he took feedback from the party on how the government’s functioning is being assessed by the people and how much of the Centre’s schemes and policies are working on the ground.