Overview
- During a third-phase GPR review meeting on Thursday, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis directed all departments to reach at least the fifth step of the six-stage reform by August 15 so services can move to final testing.
- The six-step Governance Process Re-engineering workflow requires a GPR report, CMO consultations, departmental approval, technical development by MahaIT, a government resolution, and final testing for each service.
- Fadnavis inaugurated two IT-led projects at the meeting — Data Analytics as a Service to monitor administration and Mini Setu Centres to expand local access to digital services.
- The government ordered departments to cut paperwork, merge duplicate or obsolete services, and migrate offerings onto state platforms such as MahaDBT 2.0, MAITRI and Aaple Sarkar 2.0 while the IT department builds resilient backend systems.
- The state has started converting police facilitation centres in Maoist-free pockets of Gadchiroli into Setu Kendras to improve offline access, and officials warn that delayed government resolutions or poor inter-department coordination could stall the planned rollouts.