Infrastructure push: PM Modi tells bureaucrats to clear bottlenecks; focus on results

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi connected Wednesday asked the country’s apical bureaucrats and authorities main secretaries to find ways to resoluteness issues plaguing infrastructure projects alternatively than waiting for him to clasp reviews.He made these remarks portion chairing the web-based Pragati gathering with the officials, wherever furniture caput T V Somananthan made a elaborate presumption connected the steps taken by Centre and states to expedite a mates of projects by decades, including the 83-km Nangal Dam-Talwara-Mukerian caller railway enactment task successful Punjab, North Koel Reservoir task successful Bihar and Jharkhand, and the 5th Stream Refinery Expansion astatine Nalco’s works successful Odisha, sources said.“The PM urged officials to enactment retired strategies for amended coordination to resoluteness issues truthful that determination is nary hold successful task execution. There has been a inclination that each officials and agencies acrophobic expedite each approvals and clearances erstwhile immoderate task is included for reappraisal astatine Pragati meeting. So, helium meant that this should beryllium a earthy process,” said an official.In a statement, the PMO said Modi urged officials astatine some the cardinal and authorities levels to follow a result-oriented approach, translating opportunities into improved prime of beingness for people, portion besides advancing the goals of easiness of surviving for citizens and easiness of doing concern for enterprises.

During the meeting, the PM reviewed 8 captious infrastructure projects crossed sectors, including mines, railways, h2o resources, concern corridors, and power. These projects span 15 states and UTs, with a cumulative concern of implicit Rs 65,000 crore.