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26/05/22 08:14 AM IST

PM chairs 40th PRAGATI Interaction

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  • Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi chaired the meeting of 40th edition of PRAGATI, the ICT based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, involving Centre and State governments.
PRAGATI 
  • It is a platform which enables the Prime Minister to discuss the issues with the concerned Central and State officials with full information and latest visuals of the ground-level situation.
  • It was launched in 2015 and has been designed by the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) team with the help of National Informatics Center (NIC).
  • It is a three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States).
  • The three objectives of PRAGATI are:
  • Grievance Redressal
  • Programme Implementation
  • Project Monitoring
  • The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
  • It promotes cooperative federalism as it brings on one platform the Secretaries of Government of India and the Chief Secretaries of the States.
Source- PIB 

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