PRAGATI Platform

27.10.2023

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Why in the news?

The Prime Minister recently chaired the meeting of the 43rd edition of PRAGATI, involving Centre and State governments.

About PRAGATI Platform

• It stands for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.
• It is a multi-purpose and multi-modal platform that is aimed at addressing common man’s grievances and simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the Government of India as well as projects flagged by State Governments.
• The platform was launched on March 25, 2015.
• It is designed in-house by the PMO team with the help of the National Informatics Center (NIC).
• It is also a robust system for bringing e-transparency and e-accountability with real-time presence and exchange among the key stakeholders.
• This platform is combined with the three latest technologies, that are-
  • Video-conferencing
  • Digital data management and
  • Geo-spatial technology.

Key features of the PRAGATI Platform are as follows:

•  It is a three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States).
• The Prime Minister will conduct a meeting every month. He will interact with secretaries and chief secretaries of the GOI via video conferencing.
• It is held every month on the Fourth Wednesday at 3.30 PM- known as PRAGATI Day.
•  Issues to be flagged before the PM are picked up from the available database regarding Public Grievances, on-going Programmes and pending Projects.
•  The system will ride on, strengthen and re-engineer the data bases of the CPGRAMS for grievances, Project Monitoring Group (PMG) and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. PRAGATI provides an interface and platform for all these three aspects.
•  It will also take into consideration various correspondences to the PM's office by the common people or from high dignitaries of States and/or developers of public projects.
• The issues flagged are uploaded seven days prior to the PRAGATI day (i.e. on the third Wednesday of every month).
•  These issues can be viewed by the Union Government Secretaries and Chief Secretaries after entering into the application.
•  Union Government Secretaries and Chief Secretaries will be able to see the issues pertaining to their Department /State;
•  Union Government Secretaries and Chief Secretaries have to put their comments and updates about the flagged issues within three days (i.e. by next Monday);
•  One day - Tuesday is available to the PMO team to review the data entered by the Union Government Secretaries and Chief Secretaries;
•  The design is such that when PM reviews the issue he should have on his screen the issue as well as the latest updates and visuals regarding the same.

Source:PIB