Prime Minister Narendra Modi has set up a monitoring group under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Agriculture, Farmers’ Welfare and Rural Development Shivraj Singh Chouhan to review implementation of schemes announced by the Prime Minister and in the Union Budget, subordinate legislation and other infrastructure projects.
Shivraj Singh Chouhan with PM Narendra Modi.
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HT learns that the first meeting of the newly formed monitoring group took place in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) on October 18 with all secretaries to the Government of India including Chairman Railway Board attending the meeting in hybrid mode. The monitoring group under the three-time chief minister of Madhya Pradesh is scheduled to meet every month in the PMO at South Block to review and push all government schemes towards fruition.
According to officials who attended the meeting, PM Modi has delegated powers to Chouhan to monitor the progress of the announced projects since the first NDA government under him was formed in 2014. HT also learns that senior officers at the level of additional secretaries and joint secretaries who were acting as nodal officers for various schemes announced by the PM have been asked to attend the monitoring group meeting.
While the government is tight-lipped about the monitoring group, Chouhan is expected to review the following schemes: announcements listed in the PM’s portal; projects for which the foundation stone was laid down by Modi; budget announcements; subordinate legislations or laws on which rules are yet to be framed; and other infrastructure projects.
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While the government is tight-lipped about the monitoring group, Chouhan is expected to review the following schemes: announcements listed in the PM’s portal; projects for which the foundation stone was laid down by Modi; budget announcements; subordinate legislations or laws on which rules are yet to be framed; and other infrastructure projects.
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Besides the overview, Chouhan will also convey to the concerned secretaries the expectations of the PMO if any project is found lagging or needs inter-ministerial support from the apex office.
With his involvement in both day-to-day administration and global affairs, it is believed that the PM has been concerned about the time-lag in the implementation of government schemes and has often made his apprehensions known in closed-door meetings with his secretaries and top PMO officials. This monitoring group headed by Chouhan, 65, widely seen as an efficient administrator is believed to be a response to this.
Shishir Gupta is Executive Editor at Hindustan Times and one of India's top journalists covering national security, strategic affairs, foreign policy and geopolitics. Over the past three decades, he has extensively reported on India's military, diplomatic and security landscape, covering every major conflict and national security challenge, from the 1999 Kargil War and the 2020 East Ladakh standoff to Operation Sindoor in 2025. He has also covered major terror attacks, including the IC-814 hijacking, the 26/11 Mumbai attacks and the 2025 Pahalgam terror strike, along with numerous Pakistan-backed terrorist incidents in the Kashmir Valley and across India. He has reported on national and state elections for more than three decades. A recognised authority on strategic affairs, Gupta has covered India's nuclear programme since the Pokhran-II (Shakti series) tests in May 1998 and has written extensively on global nuclear issues, Indian diplomacy and the country's expanding global outreach. He has also reported widely on international conflicts and terrorism, with a special focus on the Indian subcontinent. Gupta has interviewed Prime Minister Narendra Modi more than four times, including Modi's first interview with the print media after becoming Prime Minister in May 2014. His other interviews include three with the Dalai Lama, as well as conversations with Benjamin Netanyahu, Amit Shah, Yogi Adityanath, S. Jaishankar, Nirmala Sitharaman and Piyush Goyal. He is the author of Indian Mujahideen: The Enemy Within (Hachette, 2011) and Himalayan Face-off: Chinese Assertion and Indian Riposte (Hachette, 2014). He was awarded the Chevening-Wolfson Joint Scholarship at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK, in 1998 and participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) of the US State Department in 2006. He received the Ben Gurion Prize from Israel in 2011 and the K. Subrahmanyam Prize for Strategic Studies in 2015 from the Manohar Parrikar Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (MP-IDSA). Since 2024, he has hosted Point Blank, Hindustan Times' weekly YouTube show on global geopolitics.
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