- India
- Sep 25
- Sreesha V.M
PM Modi chairs 49th PRAGATI meeting
• Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the 49th meeting of PRAGATI on September 24.
• The platform brings together the Centre and states to fast-track major projects, address bottlenecks, and ensure time-bound delivery.
• During the meeting, the PM reviewed eight critical infrastructure projects across sectors, including mines, railways, water resources, industrial corridors and power.
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.
(The author is a trainer for Civil Services aspirants.)