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Land acquisition remained a large contented to resoluteness successful infrastructure development, said Cabinet Secretary T.V. Somanathan portion briefing reporters aft the 50th gathering of the Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation (PRAGATI), a mechanics to reappraisal implementation of infrastructure projects, chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi present connected Friday (January 2, 2026). Mr. Somanathan said the Union authorities has nary plans to alteration the existing onshore acquisition policy.
The Cabinet Secretary, secretaries of assorted Ministries dealing with infrastructure improvement and the Railway Board’s Chairman said successful their presentations to media that onshore acquisition was 1 of the large reasons for the pendency of assorted infrastructure projects crossed the country. Mr. Somanathan said Pragati reviewed implicit 3,300 projects worthy ₹85 lakh crore. 7,735 issues were raised during its meetings and 7,156 of them were resolved.
Timely monitoring
Mr. Somanathan said though the authorities has not calculated the savings owed to timely monitoring of the schemes, helium said respective projects, immoderate started arsenic aboriginal arsenic successful 1990s, got completed aft the Pragati strategy was launched. Of the 7,156 issues resolved, the Cabinet Secretary said 35% were connected onshore acquisition, 20% were connected forest, wildlife and situation issues, 18% were close of use/way, and different projects were delayed owed to instrumentality and order, construction, powerfulness inferior approvals and fiscal issues.
“There is nary program to alteration the onshore acquisition policy,” helium said erstwhile asked if the authorities plans to alteration the instrumentality successful the inheritance of hurdles created by issues successful onshore acquisition to infrastructure projects. “All States, irrespective of the governmental dispensations, privation to implicit their projects and each main secretaries person been precise responsive successful resolving issues,” helium added.
Mr. Somanathan said initially issues are addressed astatine the Ministry level, portion analyzable and captious issues are escalated done defined organization mechanisms for higher-level review, culminating astatine Pragati meetings chaired by the Prime Minister. “The escalation model ensures coordinated inter-ministerial action, timely decision-making, and focused solution of implementation bottlenecks successful projects of nationalist importance,” helium said, portion adding that PRAGATI ensured coordination betwixt Central Ministries, coordination betwixt States, Centre and section governments and coordination wrong the State governments.
