Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh Prime in his second term felt necessary to issue revised guidelines which was in existence for 25 years, on channels of communications between the government of India and state governments on the one hand, and foreign governments or their missions in India, heads of Indian diplomatic missions and posts abroad and international organiastions on the other.
Prime Minister directed concerned Union ministries to review guidelines to facilitate a co-ordinated approach to promote out national interest and foreign policy objectives
Recently, Cabinet Secretary KM Chandrasekhar, in an identical letter to 78 Union ministers said that a new policy of government to government communication was evolved and he enclosed eleven pages instructions.