• Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the PRAGATI meeting on May 28.

• During the meeting, the PM reviewed three major infrastructure projects with a cumulative cost of over Rs 62,000 crore, spanning the sectors of road transport, power, and water resources located across various states and UTs.

• Emphasizing the strategic importance of these projects, he called for concerted efforts to overcome implementation bottlenecks and ensure their timely completion.

• During a review of public grievances linked to the Real Estate Regulatory Authority (RERA), PM Modi emphasized the need to improve the quality and timeliness of grievance disposal to ensure justice and fairness for homebuyers.

• He asked state governments to ensure the mandatory registration of all eligible real estate projects under the RERA Act. 

What is PRAGATI?

• PRAGATI is the acronym for the ICT-based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.

• It is a three-tier system consisting of the PMO, Union government secretaries and chief secretaries of the states.

• The system has been designed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) with the help of National Informatics Center (NIC). 

• The platform is aimed at addressing the common man’s grievances, and simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the central as well as state governments.

Its objectives are:

i) Grievance redressal

ii) Programme implementation

iii) Project monitoring.

The PRAGATI platform bundles three technologies: 

i) Digital data management

ii) Video-conferencing

iii) Geo-spatial technology. 

• It offers a unique combination in the direction of cooperative federalism since it brings on one stage the secretaries of government of India and the chief secretaries of the states.

• With this, the Prime Minister is able to discuss the issues with the concerned central and state officials with full information and latest visuals of the ground level situation.

• It is a robust system for bringing e-transparency and e-accountability with real-time presence and exchange among the key stakeholders. It is also an innovative project in e-governance and good governance. 

• The first meeting was held on March 25, 2015.

• During PRAGATI meetings, 373 projects having a total cost of around Rs 20.64 lakh crore have been reviewed.

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