new delhi prime minister narendra modi has in the past month or so sat through more than 50 presentations and reviews aimed at accelerating reforms through a number of sectoral decisions intended to address bottlenecks and the impact of covid rather than opting for bigbang decisionsin the absence of regular interactions and public programmes the pm has had the time to pack in several virtual discussions in a day and top officials have logged in 1000 manhours as meetings lasted two hours on an average with about 10 people attending said official sources the brainstorming sessions on a wide range of issues were intended to boost growthcoronavirus live updatesno big stimulus but several sectoral reforms in the pipelinethere were multiple meetings dealing with infrastructure use of technology in areas from health to taxation welfare policies targeting the poor and promiddle class initiatives relating to ease of living for citizensin his interventions the prime minister called for efficient land use at ports faceless tax assessment to improve transparency use of technology to enhance state capacity at the level of local government plans to boost access to online learning in rural areas and more use of upi in dbt schemes said an official present at the discussionsthere were presentations by niti aayog the pms economic advisory council and the finance ministry on further reform push options in the light of the pandemic sources said what seemed to be in the pipeline were several sectoral decisions rather than a major stimulus it was also felt that some time be given to allow the previous set of measures announced by the government to play outthe real estate sector came up for an indepth review to see how demand could be restored and even fuelled technology remained a running theme and in a virtual interaction with nasscom the pm stressed the need to better data governance in india as also facilitate availability of digital devices in rural areas along with connectivitywatch coronavirus pm modi had 50 meetings in 1 month on reforms