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A brief about the Delivery Monitoring Unit (DMU), which has been set up in the Prime Minister's Office, was delivered by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday.
The DMU has been implemented so that the progress of the flagship programmes of the government as well as its initiatives and iconic projects can be observed.
DMU, by scrutinizing the output data from concerned ministries, will make sure that the programmes are delivered in an efficient way. This will also ensure that the programmes are implemented in a faster way. DMU also helps to solve the issues via periodic reviews, which will be reported to the PM on a quarterly-basis.
"At a 90-minute meeting, the prime minister acquainted himself with the delivery monitoring unit's mechanism. During UPA-1 there were 101 items in the National Common Minimum Programme which were being monitored by the PMO. Now, these have been reduced to a select menu of 18 items of high visibility and high impact projects," a PMO release said.
"The first report would be presented to the prime minister in early October. The primary objective is that this reporting be placed in the public domain so that it is available to the citizens as well," the release added.
It was also stressed during the meeting that the DMU would in no way dilute the role of the administrative ministries in these programmes.
"The inputs would be used to facilitate speedy implementation of these programmes and, if necessary, help ensure course correction," the release pointed out.
The information will be publicized by the concerned ministries on the websites from Sep 15.
