Delivery, not intent, defines governance
Two path-breaking inter ventions by the Government have had a great impact on planning, execution and monitoring of large projects - PM Gati Shakti and PRAGATI. We look at the latter in this piece.
Two path-breaking inter ventions by the Government have had a great impact on planning, execution and monitoring of large projects - PM Gati Shakti and PRAGATI. We look at the latter in this piece.
In public discourse , launch of new schemes or enhanced budgetary allocations are often used as indicators of governance reforms.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said, “Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation is not merely a platform for reviewing major infrastructure projects, but a powerful reflection of the new work culture of New India."
The meeting chaired by Bhaskar Jyoti Sarma, Principal Secretary of the FE&CC Department focused on the expeditious processing of Forest Diversion Proposals.
Addressing a press briefing, the Chief Secretary underscored the significance of PRAGATI@50, noting that the technology-driven governance mechanism has successfully unlocked several projects that had remained stalled for decades due to inter-departmental bottlenecks and procedural delays.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday chaired a meeting of the 45th edition of PRAGATI, the ICT-based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, involving Centre and state governments.
Addressing the gathering, the Prime Minister said, "Today Delhi has got a very beautiful gift of modern infrastructure from the central government. It was not easy to prepare the Integrated Transit Corridor in such a short span of time. The roads, around which the corridor is built is one of the busiest roads in Delhi."
The last gathering was held digitally under the Saudi presidency in Riyadh in November 2020.
In the past 10 months, Pragyan ‘21 organized a plethora of events and took social initiatives.
Among the nine projects, three projects were from the Ministry of Railways, three from MORTH, and one project each from DPIIT, Power Ministry and Ministry of External Affairs
