6.2. Rationale behind setting up Alternative Mechanisms

The rationale behind setting up ‘Alternative Mechanims’ include:

1. Improved Coordination: To bring synergies and ensure timely clearances on matters of critical importance from different departments and Ministries.

2. Faster Decision Making: This would expedite the process of decision making specially for strategic issues, since prior to this each ministry had to approach the cabinet at each stagefor clearances.

3. Reduced workload: To take away some of the workload from the Union Cabinet, and select cabinet committees.

4. Due Diligence: By following due diligence at each step and necessary safeguards are in place to ensure that probing agencies do not interrupt the process later.

5. Lower Litigation: To reduce litigation and pendency of cases with the judiciary, by following due process at each step.

6. Stable Policy Environment: Due diligence, smooth decision making processes and reduced rates of litigation would ensure policy stability & consistency benefitting the overall investment environment in the country.

Accelerated and effective decision-making is a critical element for the government to address key priorities quickly and effectively. This makes ‘alternative mechanisms’ imperative since these enhance existing decision frameworks and associated governance structures. However, the composition of these alternative mechanisms and their number must be conducive to the end objectives.