New Delhi, April 5 (TIWN) Union Minister of State for Science and Technology, Jitendra Singh on Monday said the ultimate objective and the litmus test of good governance is to bring the ease of living in the lives of common citizens.

Talking about the essence of good governance, Singh said, “Sometimes it seems that effective administration is the good governance, but as I think, it looks that sometimes zero government is also good governance.”  He was speaking at the launching event of the first edition of the annual report “Madhya Pradesh Sushashan and Development Report (MPSDR) 2022” on Monday evening.  Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan launched the report which has been prepared by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute of Good Governance and Policy Analysis.  Speaking on the occasion, Singh said as soon as the BJP government came into power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi gave us the mantra of “maximum governance and minimum government”.