Ministries should give progress reports to PM, govt to Congress: Chidambaram

Home minister P Chidambaram, who prepares a monthly report of the activities of his ministry, today suggested that other ministries should also be accountable to the prime minister and the government should give six-monthly progress reports to the Congress.

"The prime minister should call each and every ministry and department and seek a report from them every three months about what it has done during this period.

"And every six months, the Congress president should summon the government and ask what it has done," Chidambaram said in his address at the Congress plenary in Delhi.

In her concluding remarks, Congress president Sonia Gandhi too recommended more accountability of the party's state and district level committees to report back to the All India Congress Committee on a regular basis regarding their activities, programmes and campaigns.