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The Prime Minister reviewed projects in

these sectors on the PRAGATI platform

114 109 382 PRAGATI projects

21st-century India... takes big decisions.
It makes decisions quickly. It moves
forward with big goals. It rests only
after achieving results on a set timeline.
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Narendra Modi, Prime Minister

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Roads and Railways Power Petroleum Coal Housing Health and Family Jal Shakti External Affairs Steel Others
and Urban
Highways

general budget or accelerating decades-long proj- today become a means of granting rights to the
ects through forums like “Pragati,” direct dialogue people of the country. Previously, many schemes
with youth, students, athletes, and beneficiaries, were stalled for three or four decades. The current
whether it’s shifting from ease of doing business central government took the initiative to complete
to ease of living, or giving due respect to neglected them. The Pragati platform has increased transpar-
national icons. Whether it’s streamlining the admin- ency and transformed the work culture. Projects
istrative system and ensuring timely delivery to the being completed on time, meeting set targets, and
last mile, or the initiative “Mission Karmayogi” for the speed and scale of building next-generation
administrative reforms and improving coordination infrastructure have all been possible only through
between ministries and departments. Whether reforming processes and ensuring transparency
it’s bridging decades of gaps, bringing about an at the grassroots level. Behind these monumental
economic revolution in the form of “One Nation, efforts are the countless aspirations of the youth of
One Tax” (GST), or abrogating Article 370 in Jammu the 21st century India. Aspirations that are difficult
and Kashmir, hopes once considered impossible to fulfill in the absence of basic amenities and secu-
or small and left to fate are now being realized. rity. Through an effective platform like Pragati, New
The pathbreaking initiative, New India, is charting India is addressing these challenges, empowering
a course for change so that when the country cel- young dreams, and armed with the unwavering
ebrates its centenary of independence in 2047, the will to fulfill its resolve—a vision that will realize
fulfillment of these resolutions will place it among the dream of a Viksit Bharat by 2047 and fulfill the
the world’s most powerful nations. aspirations and expectations of 1.4 billion citizens.
Certainly, a Viksit Bharat @ 2047 is not only a
national resolution but also a time-bound goal, Let us further explore some of the projects complet-
and in the national interest, ‘Pragati’ is serving as a ed thanks to PRAGATI, which has laid the foundation
strong pillar to achieve it. The Pragati meeting has for a developed India…

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