PRAGATI platform

WHY IN NEWS?

The Prime Minister will chair PRAGATI meeting on January 22, 2020.

ABOUT PRAGATI PLATFORM

• PRAGATI (Pro-Active Governance And Timely Implementation), as the name suggests, is aimed at starting a culture of Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation.
• Prime Minister had launched the multi-purpose and multi-modal governance platform PRAGATI on 25th March 2015.
• PRAGATI is an integrating and interactive platform, aimed at addressing the common man’s grievances.
• PRAGATI also helps in simultaneously monitoring and reviewing important programmes and projects of the Government of India, as well as projects flagged by various State governments.
• The PRAGATI platform uniquely bundles three latest technologies: Digital data management, video-conferencing and geo-spatial technology.
• It is a three-tier system (PMO, Union Government Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries of the States).
• Prime Minister will hold a monthly programme where he will interact with the Government of India Secretaries, and Chief Secretaries through Video-conferencing enabled by data and geo-informatics visuals.
• Issues to be flagged before the PM are picked up from the available database regarding Public Grievances, on-going Programmes and pending Projects.
• The system will ride on, strengthen and re-engineer the data bases of the CPGRAMS for grievances, Project Monitoring Group (PMG) and the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation. PRAGATI provides an interface and platform for all these three aspects.

Prelims Question

Q. Which of the following is/are among the three tiers of PRAGATI scheme?
1. PMO
2. Union Government secretaries
3. Chief Ministers of states
Select the correct answer using the code given below:
a. 1 only
b. 1 and 2 only
c. 1 and 3 only
d. 1,2 and 3

Answer to the Prelims Question