Prime Minister Narendra Modi is directly monitoring 15 high-priority projects worth Rs 1.12 lakh crore through the PRAGATI platform to fast-track big-ticket initiatives in J&K, the Union Territory’s Chief Secretary Atal Dulloo said Monday.
Dulloo said this was enabling swift resolution of issues related to land acquisition, financial and physical constraints, and ensuring timely and fair compensation to affected families.
These are among the 61 projects with a cumulative investment of over Rs 4.12 lakh crore, spanning key sectors such as connectivity, energy, and social infrastructure, which are currently being monitored by the Prime Minister’s Group (PMG) headed by the Cabinet Secretary.
Of these, 15 projects with an outlay of Rs 69,000 crore have already been completed, while 46 projects worth Rs 3.43 lakh crore are at various stages of implementation, he said.
Pointing out that PRAGATI platform has emerged as a powerful instrument for resolving long-pending issues and ensuring the timely execution of big-ticket initiatives, Dulloo said the tech-driven governance mechanism has successfully unlocked several projects that had remained stalled for decades due to inter-departmental bottlenecks and procedural delays. He said out of 59 issues pertaining to J&K taken up in earlier PRAGATI meetings, 57 have already been resolved on merit, placing the UT among the top performers nationally, supplemented by robust district-level follow-up by the administration.
