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The Minister of Railways and Commerce & Industry, Piyush Goyal, chaired a meeting for the review of 17 large-size infrastructure projects in Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), New Delhi.

About the Project Monitoring Group

• Project Monitoring Group (PMG) is an institutional mechanism of DPIIT to expedite resolution of issues and removal of regulatory bottlenecks in projects.
• It helps to expedite resolution of issues and removal of regulatory bottlenecks in projects, with investments upward of ₹ 500 crores in India.
• PMG enlists unresolved project issues of all Public, Private and ‘Public-Private Partnership’ (PPP) projects and undertakes fast-tracking of approvals, sectoral policy issues and removal of bottlenecks for expeditious commissioning.
• Invest India provides implementational support to PMG in identifying and following up on issues with the States.

Highlights

• The meeting addressed the issues raised through the Project Monitoring Group (PMG).
• The meeting assessed critical projects, with important socio-economic and industrial significance.
• They also reviewed 36 issues in 17 projects with a total anticipated investment of Rs.32,910 crores.
• The meeting was attended by Shri Som Prakash, Minister of State for commerce and industry, Chief Secretaries of Karnataka and Maharashtra, senior officers of DPIIT, and senior officers of Jharkhand, Odisha, and UP attended through video conferencing. Senior officials of key ministries from Railways, Power, Petroleum and Natural Gas, Road Transport and Highways and Invest India participated in the review meeting.

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