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PM Narendra Modi's personal intervention helps speed up projects worth Rs 8L crore

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  • Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation (pragati Portal) is turning out to be quite a help for the Modi government as it tries to speed up development schemes.
  • PM personally involved, even state governments were complying with the deadline set for projects involving them.
  • Every project or issue taken up at Pragati meetings comes with a deadline, which government agencies have to adhere to. Officials said that with the PM personally involved, even state governments were complying with the deadline set for projects involving them.
  • Usually, towards the end of the month, on Wednesday afternoons, Modi focuses on the social sector and immediate challenges confronting states when he sits down in South Block and tries to remove hurdles with secretaries at the Centre and state chief secretaries through a video link
  • There are projects such as the Nangal Dam-Talwara railway line, which has been pending since 1981-82, where the Punjab government has now been advised to speed up handing over the remaining land besides giving forest clearance "immediately".
  • Over the last 18 months, 136 issues have been discussed at the level of the PM with several projects being of strategic importance, like a transmission system in the Kargil-Drass-Leh area.
  • Official figures show that the mechanism rolled out March 25 last year has pushed 136 projects involving investment of around Rs 8 lakh crore.
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