Chief Minister Revanth Reddy chaired a high-level review meeting at the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Telangana State Secretariat on Monday, June 15, 2026, to assess the outcomes of the state government's Praja Palana - Pragati Pranalika programme, which ran for 99 days from March 16 to June 12. The Chief Minister's Office of Telangana announced that the initiative brought the government closer to citizens across the state.

Context

The Praja Palana - Pragati Pranalika programme was a structured, state-wide public governance and progress review exercise spanning 99 days. According to the Chief Minister's Office, CM Revanth Reddy stated that through this programme, 'ప్రజా ప్రభుత్వం ప్రజలకు మరింత చేరువైంది' ('the people's government came closer to the people'). The review meeting was attended by Rajya Sabha MP Vem Narender Reddy, Chief Secretary K. Ramakrishna Rao, Director General of Police CV Anand, and senior officials from various departments.

Departments submitted reports detailing activities undertaken from the district level down to the village level. The Chief Minister personally queried officials on outcomes achieved by each department through the programme.

Policy Backdrop

The Congress-led Telangana government, formed after the 2023 assembly elections, has consistently emphasised grassroots outreach as a governance priority. The Praja Palana concept traces back to the party's pre-election public engagement drives, where voter grievances and promises were recorded at the field level. The current 99-day programme operationalises that intent within government administration.

Indian states have periodically organised fixed-duration governance drives to push officials into field visits, collect grassroots feedback, and monitor welfare scheme delivery. Telangana's exercise adds a technology layer, with CM Revanth Reddy directing that facial recognition-based attendance be implemented across all levels of the education and health departments — from schools and colleges to Primary Health Centres (PHCs), Osmania Hospital, and Gandhi Hospital.

Key Directives Issued

The Chief Minister reminded officials that he had previously ordered all senior officers — from Principal Secretaries to District Collectors — to conduct monthly field visits. He directed the Chief Secretary to submit a report identifying officials and District Collectors who had not undertaken field visits as mandated.

Feedback from public representatives and citizens gathered during programme events must be recorded, and village-level problems identified during the exercise must be resolved by the concerned departments, the CM directed. All development works undertaken, foundation stones laid, and assets created during the 3-month period must be documented. Panchayati Raj officials were instructed to immediately prepare a list of villages still lacking a gram panchayat building and draw up an action plan for constructing new ones. The CM also directed that solar power plants be installed on the rooftops of all school buildings across the state.

On accountability and transparency, CM Revanth Reddy ordered that district-level reviews mirror the state-level assessment, with a senior IAS officer deputed from the state as a Special Officer for each district to oversee the process. District-wise progress reports are to be made public, and scheme beneficiary data — broken down by constituency, mandal, and village — must be hosted on a publicly accessible dashboard. The Planning Department was directed to submit a constituency-wise report on the progress of promises made by the Chief Minister during his district visits since assuming office.

What's Next

The immediate next step is district-level review meetings, each supervised by a specially deputed senior IAS officer. Public dashboards listing scheme beneficiaries and completed works at the village, mandal, and constituency level are expected to follow. The Chief Secretary has been tasked with identifying officials who did not comply with field-visit mandates — a signal that administrative accountability will be tightened in the coming weeks.