All posts tagged "Narendra Modi"

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  UK government preps mobile app strategy, India’s PM used AI to inform 25-year roadmap, and more: news in brief

  Global Government Forum’s weekly news roundup of public service intelligence UK government preps mobile app strategy for launch next year UK government digital leaders have developed guidelines to inform the

  • Posted April 25, 2024
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  India’s latest data protection bill provokes fresh privacy concerns

  A controversial new data protection bill, which sets out rules for use of personal data by private firms and the government, has been tabled in India. Minister of electronics and

  • Posted August 8, 2023
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  India embarks on landmark civil service capacity-building reform

  The Indian government has unveiled a major reform programme that will radically reshape the way civil servants are trained and developed and create what the country’s home minister described as

  • Posted September 8, 2020
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  Indian PM instructs nation’s workforce to download COVID-19 app

  The Indian government has instructed all public and private sector employees to use its contact-tracing app, in an effort to prevent the spread of COVID-19 as it begins easing lockdown

  • Posted May 4, 2020
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  Former Indian civil servants protest targeting of Muslims over COVID-19

  Over 100 former civil servants in India have signed an open letter to the country’s chief state ministers denouncing the harassment of Muslims, which they believe has worsened since the

  • Posted April 30, 2020
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  100 former officials challenge discriminatory Indian identity programme

  Over 100 retired civil servants – including a former Cabinet secretary and chief information commissioner – have written an open letter urging the Indian government to back down on a

  • Posted January 10, 2020
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  Indian PM gives former officials ministerial jobs as focus on delivery grows

  Former civil servants and diplomats are increasingly being given Cabinet ranking or ministerial jobs in Indian prime minister Narendra Modi’s second term – bringing more delivery experience into the top

  • Posted October 24, 2019
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  India peers into its digital future

  This week, India’s Supreme Court allowed the country’s ambitious Aadhaar ID scheme to proceed, whilst setting down rules to protect people’s rights and privacy. Gavin O’Toole finds that the ruling

  • Posted September 27, 2018
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  Indian recruitment reform plans spark politicisation fears

  The Indian government’s plans to introduce a new step in the civil service’s selection and deployment procedures have sparked controversy, with opponents concerned that Narendra Modi’s administration intends to politicise

  • Posted September 6, 2018
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  Indian demonetisation may clear the way for radical tax reforms

  A think tank linked to the Indian government’s ‘demonetisation’ initiative is in talks with government figures over a radical set of taxation reforms, Global Government Forum has learned. On 9

  • Posted November 18, 2016
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