Cabinet Secretary orders revamp of e-SamikSha platform

Cabinet Secretary Rajiv Gauba has ordered a revamp of the government’s e-SamikSha platform — a real time, online system for monitoring projects and decisions taken by the Narendra Modi Government since 2014 and their follow-up actions by various ministries.

The revamp is intended to ensure that various milestones and targets put in place since 2014 are being met.

Key Highlights

• PM Modi and the Cabinet Secretary closely monitor the projects and their implementation through the platform, and follow-up actions are updated every month by the concerned ministries.
  
• The revamped platform will be rolled out from July 16 and all ministries have been given time till July 10 to update the implementation timeline of the Cabinet decisions pertaining to them on the portal.
  
• In the revamped eSamikSha, in addition to details of subject matter of decision being captured hitherto, information relating to major milestones with target dates, category of decision (legislative, infrastructure, policy, scheme etc), beneficiary states or districts will also be captured,” the Cabinet Secretariat said in a letter to all ministries on June 30.
  
• In this regard, relevant information and data in respect of decisions of the Cabinet and Cabinet Committees from May 26, 2014 to May 31, 2020 have been populated by the Cabinet Secretariat in a separate temporary BETA version of the eSamikSha.
  
• The revamp comes following Gauba’s letter to all ministries last October asking them to review all the unimplemented decisions of the Cabinet or Cabinet committees under the Modi government since May 2014 and draw up concrete plans with new timelines for their expeditious implementation.
  
• Gauba had said that the exercise may examine reasons for slippages from approved timelines.

SOURCE: Economic Times

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