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Learn From Predecessors, Report On Time & More: PM's Advice To His New Council Of Ministers

While speaking to his council of ministers, the Prime Minister advised them to meet their predecessors and learn from their experience.

New Delhi: A day after rebooting the Union Cabinet, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a meeting with his new council of ministers virtually and instructed them on running a smooth government at the Centre.

PM Modi held back-to-back meetings with cabinet ministers and council of ministers, following which the government announced a mega emergency response package of Rs 23,123 crore to combat the second wave of Coronavirus.

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While speaking to his council of ministers, the Prime Minister advised them to meet their predecessors and learn from their experience. PM said that those no longer part of it made contributions and newcomers can learn from them, sources close to ABP News informed. 

PM Modi has also asked the ministers to reach office on time and channelise all their energy into ministerial work. 

He also advised the new council of ministers to avoid making unnecessary statements. 

Further expressing concern over emerging pictures and videos of crowded places and people roaming about without masks ignoring Covid protocols, PM said that it is not a pleasant sight and it should instill a sense of fear in us. 

PM On Welfare Of Agriculture & Farmers

In his tweets, after he chaired a meeting of the Union Cabinet, PM Modi noted that the Agriculture Infrastructure Fund can now be used to strengthen the Agricultural Produce Market Committees (APMCs) and interest subvention will also be provided.

APMC mandis will also now be eligible to avail financial support from the Rs 1 lakh crore Agriculture Infrastructure Fund to expand the regulated markets' capacity and provide better facilities to farmers.

Meanwhile, PM Modi has already started working with the new batch of ministers and initiated the move with Directors of centrally funded technical institutions like IIT Bombay, IIT Madras, IIT Kanpur and IISc Bangalore.

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PM praised the research and development work done by these institutions to minimise the challenges posed by the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.

New Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Minister of State for Education Annapurna Devi, the first time MP from Koderma, was present during PM Modi's session with India's premier institutes.

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