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Indian PM tells cabinet members to speak to each other NEW DELHI, Tuesday (AFP) India's bureaucrat-turned-premier Manmohan Singh lectured his cabinet on communicating better with one another and making sound financial decisions, officials said. Soft-spoken Singh, a former International Monetary Fund employee, told his cabinet and second-rung ministers to speak to each other on the pronouncements they make on national policies. "Ministers should keep all allies informed about the policies being implemented to carry the coalition along," said Singh, who heads an unwieldy Communist-backed Congress government which took office in May. Singh, the architect of India's market reforms policy, also told his colleagues to be careful when accepting overseas capital for joint ventures. "Please lay emphasis on sound financial management and ensure that only realistic, sound and justifiable proposals are put up for expenditure," officials quoted Singh as saying during a dinner party at the prime ministerial home. Singh said his cabinet, which runs into three digits, must seek out experts to govern a country with a billion-plus population. |
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