PRAGATI MEETING

ChinmayaIAS Academy - Current Affairs November 26, 2020 GS-II Leave a comment 538 Views

CONTEXT

Recently, the Prime Minister (PM) has chaired the 33 PRAGATI meeting.Interaction through PRAGATI is held once every month on Fourth Wednesday, known as PRAGATI Day.

MAIN 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.

PRAGATI:

Launched in 2015, PRAGATI is the multimodal platform for Pro-ActiveGovernance 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).

AIM:

Grievance Redressal
Programme Implementation
Project Monitoring

It bundles three latest technologies:

Digital data management,
video-conferencing and
geo-spatial technology.

IMPORTANCE:

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 extraconstitutional office of PMO.

SOURCE: PIB

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