Bhubaneswar:9/11/26: The state government has constituted CM-PRAGATI, a high-level governance mechanism, under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi for monitoring and fast-tracking infrastructure projects in Odisha
The Planning and Convergence Department of the state government issued a notification in this regard recently.
The 12-member committee has been constituted on the lines of PM-PRAGATI with a view to expediting the execution of critical infrastructure projects in the state, said the Department.
The Chief Secretary, the Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary and the Secretaries of Revenue and Disaster Management, Energy, Finance, Forest, Environment and Climate Change, Works, Rural Development, Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce and Transport Departments are the members of the high-level committee.
The Chief Executive Officer, SITI-Odisha, is the member-convener of the panel. The committee will meet once in every month on a fixed day, said the notification.
“The committee shall provide a high-level platform for periodic review and expeditious resolution of issues relating to critical and long-pending projects of both state and Central governments, ongoing projects requiring intervention and proposed projects of strategic importance to the state,” read the notification.
The panel will facilitate time-bound decision-making, resolution of policy and inter-departmental issues, and coordinated action by the concerned departments for accelerated project implementation and achievement of intended outcomes, it added.