Modi bans mobiles in meetings
Times of India
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked bureaucrats to avoid using social media for self promotions, stating that mobile phones were banned from his meetings because he often found officials checking social media sites in the midst of discussions, reports Times of India.I see these days that district-level officers are so busy, busy, that most of their time goes into it (social media), he said at a meeting of bureaucrats to commemorate Civil Services Day.Modi also said that he had stopped the entry (of mobile phones) in his meetings as they (officers) would take them out and start checking out social media sites. Agar hamari photo idhar se udhar ho jaye to hamari neend haram ho jati hai (If a photo of ours goes missing, we lose sleep), Modi said, amid laughter from the gathering of senior officers on the occasion of the civil services day.
Saying that the world was moving from e-governance to mobile- governance, Modi said, If I am informing the people about dates of polio vaccination through social media, then it is helpful.
