New Delhi, Sept. 30 -- Top civil servants have been tasked with holding a series holding a series of meetings on the lines of Chintan Shivir of union cabinet ministers in early October to reduce compliances for businesses and speed up delivery of flagship welfare schemes ahead of crucial state elections, according to three people aware of the matter. Department secretaries have been told to convert political priorities into actionable reforms after a two-day ministerial retreat chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi last week,

The upcoming Chintan Shivir (brainstorming) sessions will target inter-ministerial bottlenecks, troublesome compliance rules, and glitchy digital interfaces. The effort is part of the administration's Viksit Bhara...