Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has constituted CM-PRAGATI, a high-level governance mechanism, to effectively monitor and fast-track infrastructure projects in the state.
A notification regarding the formation of the panel under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Mohan Charan Majhi has been issued by the Planning and Convergence Department of the state government.
According to sources, 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.
Members of the committee are Chief Secretary, Development Commissioner-cum-Additional Chief Secretary and 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.
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.
According to the notification, the committee will 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.
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 said.