D-DAY IS FINALLY HERE COVER STORY | accountable performance DRIVEN by the belief that nations and governments that do not perform are doomed, ultimately, to perish under the weight of their own inefficiency and bureaucratic sloth, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has finally taken the bull of maladministration by the horns. In a no-nonsense directive innocuously labelled Performance Monitoring and Evaluation System (PMES) for Government Departments.