NEW DELHI: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended the policy architecture of group of ministers and empowered group of ministers, he was casting governance into a more informal setting, where some of the ministers holding multiple portfolios could meet up over a text message to sort out matters.Two weeks into the government, has that really happened? According to information and broadcasting minister Prakash Javadekar , it has ended “the age of indecision”.Javadekar, who also holds the portfolios of environment and parliamentary affairs, told ET that between him and power minister Piyush Goyal, who also holds charge of coal and non-conventional energy sources, they had pretty much figured out at least some of the priorities in their ministries.“A week ago, when we took over, I was going through some files and found that a lot of matters pertained to the power ministry. Piyush and I spoke on the phone, got our secretaries to meet us at Paryavaran Bhavan and hammered out at least some issues,” he said.“I’m not saying that we are going to rush through clearances, but that indecision will be at an end,” he said. “We decided, for example, to prioritise issues related to defence. For Operation Seabird in Karwar in Karnataka, a naval project clearances for power plants and other things were held up, those are being cleared. In the Andamans, a checkpoint at Coco Islands, which is across the sea from China, required environmental clearance,” he said.Goyal, who has some of the ministries which have most to do with others, had also reached out to water resources minister Uma Bharati , to clear up some issues on hydel power projects.“Pranabda ( Pranab Mukherjee ) headed so many GoMs in the last government that it took weeks to sort out his availability for meetings, here we don’t have that issue,” added Javadekar.Bharati and Nitin Gadkari unveiled a joint plan last week for an inland waterway system which they had hammered out over one such meeting.Even an old-school leader like Kalraj Mishra , a contemporary of AB Vajapyee and minister for small and medium sector enterprises, has got into the act. Mishra has circulated a small form in all ministries soliciting names of projects where any other ministry is a stake holder.“I will call up and speak to these ministers and we can sort out matters in a logical fashion without much red tape.” The collegial slant being given to the council of ministers flows from it being an almost single-party government, where leadership and authority flow from one source. “In a coalition government, yes, this could be an issue, where point scoring and turf are important,” said a senior minister. Call, text and message, but meet.