PRAGATI Meeting held

PRAGATI Meeting held

Part of: GS Prelims and GS-II – Federalism; Governance

In news

• Recently, the Prime Minister (PM) has chaired the 33rd PRAGATI meeting.

Important value addition

PRAGATI

• PRAGATI is the multimodal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation involving central and state governments 
• Launched in: 2015
• Designed by: 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: (1) Grievance Redressal; (2) Programme Implementation; (3) Project Monitoring
• The PRAGATI platform uses latest technologies such as Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
• Significance: (1) It promotes cooperative federalism; (2) It is a robust system for bringing e-transparency and e-accountability with real-time presence and exchange among the key stakeholders; (3) It is an innovative project in e-governance and good governance.