Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday chaired a meeting of the 42nd edition of PRAGATI, the ICT-based multi-modal platform for Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation, involving Centre and state governments.
In the meeting, twelve key projects were reviewed. Among the twelve projects, seven projects were from the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, two projects were from the Ministry of Railways and one project each was from the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways, Ministry of Steel, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas.
During the interaction, the Prime Minister also reviewed the ‘PM SVANidhi Scheme’. He urged the Chief Secretaries to identify and cover all the eligible street vendors in urban areas especially in Tier II and Tier III cities.
He also instructed that a drive be carried out to encourage digital transactions by street vendors in a mission mode and to give benefits of all the government schemes to family members of SVANIdhi beneficiaries through the SVANidhi se Samriddhi campaign.
PM Modi congratulated all the Chief Secretaries for having organized successful G20 meetings. He urged them to maximize the benefits of these meetings for their states, especially for the promotion of tourism and export. During PRAGATI meetings, 340 projects having a total cost of Rs 17.05 lakh crore have been reviewed till now.
Source ANI
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