Overview
- The Prime Minister reviewed five infrastructure projects across roads, railways, power, water resources and coal in five states totaling more than Rs 40,000 crore.
- He directed an outcome focus for the PM SHRI schools scheme, asking Chief Secretaries to track implementation closely and send senior officers for field checks.
- He called for deeper use of technology across the entire project life cycle to speed execution, improve quality and enable measurable results.
- The government described PRAGATI as a cooperative federalism forum that breaks siloed functioning, with about 500 Union and state secretaries participating over the years.
- States were encouraged to institutionalise similar PRAGATI-like mechanisms, particularly for social-sector programmes at the Chief Secretary level.