I t’s not every day that a Prime Minister spends hours in brainstorming sessions with senior bureaucrats. But that’s exactly what Narendra Modi has been doing. Recently, he was huddling with his top babus in marathon meetings to “reboot governance” under the Modi 3.0 banner. The optics are familiar, but this time the pitch is grander: to reimagine how the government works, from decision-making speed to accountability and delivery on the ground.

The move comes at an interesting juncture, after two terms of muscular policy-making from GST to digital India to big-ticket infrastructure. Modi seems to have realised that new laws and slogans alone can’t move the needle if the babus are stuck in old habits. Governance reform, not just policy reform, is now the frontier. The talk is of efficienc

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