Source: The Hindu

Special Correspondent

Asks public institutions to shift their focus from input to outcome and output

CHENNAI: All large public-private partnership contracts should be available for public scrutiny before they are signed, T.V. Somanathan, Secretary, Department of Planning, Development and Special Initiatives, said on Saturday.

Delivering the third S. Guhan Memorial Lecture, organised by the Citizen Consumer and Civic Action Group (CAG) here, on Saturday, he made a "modest suggestion" that public institutions shift their focus from input to outcome and output. His other suggestions included that anti-corruption departments move away from questioning individual decisions and subjecting themselves to examination.

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