India’s Institutional Architecture for Infrastructure

    21-Feb-2026
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Arihant Kumar
Contd from previous issue
Escalation is not dramatic; it is deliberate. In this way, this PRAGATI led ecosystem, with PMGat its core, bridges technology and governance, turning data into decisions and decisions into delivery. Closure, in this system, is not an aspiration, it is an expectation.
I have witnessed the way behaviour has shifted across ministries and states. Fragmentation becomes uncomfortable when everyone sees the same facts. Delay becomes difficult when it is illuminated, named, and revisitedwithin a system anchored in direct Prime Ministerial oversight. Projects that languished for yearsairports, rail lines, highways, power corridorsbegan to move, not because their nature changed, but because the fog around them lifted.
Today, more than three thousand projects, worth over ?85 lakh crore, move through this ecosystem. Issues rise, resolve, and retire with a steady institutional cadence. This is not the theatre of governance; it is its discipline. For citizens, the impact is not abstract. (To be contd)