India’s Institutional Architecture for Infrastructure
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Arihant Kumar
Contd from previous issue
Chaired by the Prime Minister, it brought together Union Secretaries and State Chief Secretaries, aligning those who held the levers of action around a single, shared view of nationally significant projects and their bottlenecks. In that room, delay could no longer hide behind language. Milestones were examined, issues made visible, and questions asked directly. Most importantly, responsibility carried a name, a timeline, and a date for return.
Still the real story of PRAGATI does not unfold only during these high-level reviews. It lives in the quiet, persistent work that precedes and follows them. This preparatory discipline, institutional memory, and follow-through is provided by the Project Monitoring Group (PMG), the operational backbone of the ecosystem.
I have seen PMG grow the way institutions rarely do,patiently and with purpose. What began as a simple digital interface has evolved into a mature, technologydriven, milestonebased monitoring platform that has reshaped how infrastructure projects are tracked and resolved in India. Within this architecture, PMG serves as the first point of consolidation and analysis, acting as both sentinel and translator. (To be contd)
Contd from previous issue
Chaired by the Prime Minister, it brought together Union Secretaries and State Chief Secretaries, aligning those who held the levers of action around a single, shared view of nationally significant projects and their bottlenecks. In that room, delay could no longer hide behind language. Milestones were examined, issues made visible, and questions asked directly. Most importantly, responsibility carried a name, a timeline, and a date for return.
Still the real story of PRAGATI does not unfold only during these high-level reviews. It lives in the quiet, persistent work that precedes and follows them. This preparatory discipline, institutional memory, and follow-through is provided by the Project Monitoring Group (PMG), the operational backbone of the ecosystem.
I have seen PMG grow the way institutions rarely do,patiently and with purpose. What began as a simple digital interface has evolved into a mature, technologydriven, milestonebased monitoring platform that has reshaped how infrastructure projects are tracked and resolved in India. Within this architecture, PMG serves as the first point of consolidation and analysis, acting as both sentinel and translator. (To be contd)