CM Sai chairs PARAS portal review at Mahanadi Bhawan
Synopsis
Key Takeaways
Good governance has a dashboard now — and Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai sat down on Tuesday, 29 September 2026 to scrutinise it. The Chief Minister's Office of Chhattisgarh convened a review meeting of the Rajya Pragati Portal (PARAS), the state's digital scheme-monitoring system, at Mahanadi Bhawan, Nava Raipur Atal Nagar.
What PARAS tracks — and why the meeting matters
PARAS — short for Rajya Pragati Portal — is Chhattisgarh's centralised digital dashboard for tracking the implementation of government schemes across departments and districts. Review meetings of this kind bring together secretariat-level officials to assess how targets are being met on the ground, flag bottlenecks, and issue directives for course correction. At its core, it is the state administration asking itself: are the policies we announced actually reaching people?
The meeting was held at Mahanadi Bhawan, the principal secretariat building in the planned capital Nava Raipur Atal Nagar, which houses the nerve centre of Chhattisgarh's executive machinery.
Sai government's 'Sushasan' push
Chief Minister Vishnu Deo Sai, who took office in December 2023 leading the BJP government in the state, has consistently foregrounded the theme of sushasan — good governance — as a political and administrative commitment. The hashtag #Sushasansarkar attached to the post signals that this review is being framed as part of that broader brand promise rather than a routine administrative exercise. Periodic secretariat-level reviews using digital dashboards have been a feature of Chhattisgarh governance across administrations, but the current government has leaned into the visibility of such meetings as a transparency signal.
With district officials and multiple state departments feeding data into PARAS, the portal is intended to give leadership a real-time picture of scheme delivery — cutting through the lag that typically separates policy announcement from on-ground reality.
What comes next from Mahanadi Bhawan
The post, shared with three images from the meeting, does not detail specific metrics discussed or directives issued. Follow-up communications from the CMO on portal performance figures or corrective orders will be the real measure of whether Tuesday's review translates into administrative action. In governance terms, a review meeting is only as consequential as the decisions that follow it.
For a state where welfare scheme delivery is a live political issue, the PARAS review puts accountability on record — and on the clock.