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NITI Aayog, QCI launch NPMPF Initiative to transform infrastructure sector in India
Oct-29-2020

With an aim to bring radical reforms in the way infrastructure projects are executed in India, NITI Aayog and Quality Council of India (QCI) have launched the ‘National Program and Project Management Policy Framework’ (NPMPF).

This framework aims to formulate radical reforms in the way large and mega infrastructure projects are managed in India, with an action plan to adopt a program and project management approach to infra development; institutionalize and promote the profession of program and project management and build a workforce of such professionals; and enhance institutional capacity and capability of professionals.

Lauding the initiative, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said, ‘NPMPF will help in realizing the Prime Minister’s vision of an Aatmanirbhar Bharat by building a stronger India, in which we would need good quality infrastructure; we would need to reduce costs and waste material, without compromising on the environment and ecology. We also need to ensure time-bound and result-oriented delivery of projects.’ 

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