Important Facts For Prelims
PRAGATI Meeting
- 26 Nov 2020
- 2 min read
Why in News
Recently, the Prime Minister (PM) has chaired the 33rd PRAGATI meeting.
- Interaction through PRAGATI is held once every month on Fourth Wednesday, known as PRAGATI Day.
Key Points
- Highlights of the Meeting:
- The PM asked states to develop a state-specific export strategy, and reviewed development projects worth Rs. 1.41 lakh crore spread across 10 states and union territories.
- Grievances related to Covid-19 and to the PM Awas Yojana (Gramin) were also taken up.
- PM SVANidhi, agriculture reforms and development of districts as export hubs were reviewed.
- PRAGATI:
- Launched in 2015, PRAGATI is the multimodal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation involving central and state governments.
- It has been designed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) team with the help of the National Informatics Center (NIC).
- It enables the PM 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 three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States).
- Objective:
- Grievance Redressal
- Programme Implementation
- Project Monitoring
- The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
- Significance:
- It promotes cooperative federalism as it brings together the Secretaries of Government of India and the Chief Secretaries of the States.
- It is a robust system for bringing e-transparency and e-accountability with real-time presence and exchange among the key stakeholders.
- It is an innovative project in e-governance and good governance.
- Concerns: The direct interaction of the PM with the state secretaries without involving the political executives of the states is undermining the state political executive.
- It is also said that this is leading to a concentration of power in the extra-constitutional office of PMO.
- Launched in 2015, PRAGATI is the multimodal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation involving central and state governments.
