India is moving towards a more integrated and data-driven system for monitoring large public infrastructure projects, with the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s PAIMANA platform emerging as the central digital backbone for project oversight, performance assessment and inter-ministerial coordination.
PAIMANA — Project Assessment, Infrastructure Monitoring and Analytics for Nation-Building — was launched on 25 September 2025 as a web-based platform for monitoring Central Sector infrastructure projects costing ₹150 crore or more. It replaced the older Online Computerized Monitoring System, or OCMS-2006, and is designed to provide a more modern system for tracking project costs, expenditure, physical progress, timelines and implementation issues.
The platform is now being expanded beyond conventional project monitoring. With the addition of the PAIMANA-CRIP central repository module and a dedicated Performance Monitoring Dashboard, the government is attempting to create a single digital architecture capable of tracking both individual infrastructure projects and the broader performance of major infrastructure sectors.
PAIMANA-CRIP Becomes Central Repository for Infrastructure Projects
A major expansion came on 8 July 2026, when MoSPI launched the PAIMANA-CRIP module, replacing the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade’s Integrated Project Monitoring Portal.
The new module is intended to evolve into a Central Repository of Infrastructure Projects, bringing project information used across different government monitoring mechanisms onto a common platform.
Over time, project data used for high-level monitoring mechanisms such as PRAGATI — Pro-Active Governance and Timely Implementation — and the Project Monitoring Group is expected to be sourced and updated through the same system.
More than 20 Ministries, Departments and implementing agencies are already regularly supplying information to PAIMANA-CRIP, either through direct data entry or through Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs.
This API-based approach is particularly important because it reduces dependence on manual reporting.
More than 60 per cent of projects currently available on PAIMANA are being updated automatically through APIs connected to the management information systems and web platforms operated by individual Ministries and Departments.
The Project Monitoring vertical of PAIMANA is also integrated with DPIIT’s earlier infrastructure monitoring systems through API-based data exchange, allowing information to flow between different government platforms.
1,847 Infrastructure Projects Worth ₹40.54 Lakh Crore Under Monitoring
The scale of infrastructure investment being monitored through PAIMANA is substantial.
As of June 2026, the system was tracking 1,847 ongoing Central Sector infrastructure projects spread across 17 Ministries and Departments.
Together, these projects carry a revised estimated cost of ₹40.54 lakh crore.
Cumulative expenditure on the projects has already reached approximately ₹21.97 lakh crore, equivalent to around 54.18 per cent of their revised cost.
A significant portion of the project pipeline has also reached advanced stages of implementation.
Around 709 projects, or roughly 39 per cent, have crossed 80 per cent physical completion, while approximately 337 projects, or around 19 per cent, have achieved more than 80 per cent financial progress.
The data gives policymakers a consolidated view not only of how much money has been spent, but also of whether physical execution is moving at a comparable pace.
Transport and Logistics Dominates the Infrastructure Pipeline
Transport and logistics accounts for the largest concentration of infrastructure projects monitored through the system.
The sector contains 1,341 ongoing projects with a combined revised cost of approximately ₹22.32 lakh crore.
The scale reflects the government’s continuing emphasis on expanding highways, railway networks, logistics infrastructure and other forms of physical connectivity.
Within the overall portfolio are 769 mega projects, each costing ₹1,000 crore or more.
Together, these mega projects account for an estimated ₹30.51 lakh crore.
Another 1,078 major projects, costing between ₹150 crore and ₹1,000 crore each, account for approximately ₹5.10 lakh crore.
The distribution illustrates how a relatively limited number of very large projects account for a substantial share of India’s infrastructure expenditure.
Roads Account for More Than Half of All Projects
The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has by far the largest number of projects under monitoring.
It is responsible for 1,022 projects, representing around 55 per cent of the total project count, with a combined revised cost of approximately ₹9.89 lakh crore.
The Ministry of Railways follows with 255 projects, or around 14 per cent of the total, carrying a revised cost of approximately ₹8.69 lakh crore.
The Ministry of Coal has 121 projects with a combined revised cost of roughly ₹2.22 lakh crore.
Other major infrastructure ministries also account for substantial investments.
The Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas is implementing 105 projects worth ₹4.33 lakh crore, while the Ministry of Power is handling 98 projects worth approximately ₹5.71 lakh crore.
The Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs has 50 projects with a revised cost of ₹3.65 lakh crore, while the Department of Water Resources, River Development and Ganga Rejuvenation is managing 40 projects worth approximately ₹2.04 lakh crore.
Another 156 projects, accounting for around eight per cent of the overall project count, are distributed across Ministries and Departments dealing with areas including higher education, civil aviation, steel, telecommunications, labour, ports, health, mines, industry and sports.
Together, these projects carry a revised cost of approximately ₹4.02 lakh crore.
Performance Monitoring Dashboard Goes Beyond Project Completion
PAIMANA is also being used to shift infrastructure monitoring away from simply asking whether a project has been completed.
On 16 April 2026, MoSPI launched a dedicated Performance Monitoring Dashboard designed to assess the broader functioning of major infrastructure sectors.
Instead of focusing only on construction output or expenditure, the dashboard brings together indicators covering access, quality, utilisation, affordability, fiscal cost and revenue performance.
This represents an important change in the way infrastructure performance is measured.
A road, railway line, power plant or telecommunications network may technically be complete, but the larger policy question is whether it is accessible, reliably used, economically viable and delivering the intended public benefit.
The dashboard attempts to capture these dimensions through a wider indicator framework.
165 Indicators Across Six Major Infrastructure Sectors
The Performance Monitoring Dashboard currently covers 165 indicators across six infrastructure sub-sectors.
The framework was developed in consultation with the National Institute of Public Finance and Policy and aligned with the government’s Harmonized Master List of Infrastructure, 2022, issued by the Department of Economic Affairs.
The dashboard includes:
| Infrastructure Sub-sector | Number of Indicators |
|---|---|
| Civil Aviation | 31 |
| Roads | 8 |
| Power | 14 |
| Ports, Shipping & Waterways | 62 |
| Telecommunications | 13 |
| Railways | 37 |
| Total | 165 |
The dashboard was recently expanded by adding 54 new indicators, taking the total to 165.
Ports, Shipping and Waterways currently has the largest indicator set with 62 indicators, followed by Railways with 37 and Civil Aviation with 31.
The framework is designed to avoid unnecessary duplication with existing national indicators such as the Index of Industrial Production and the Eight Core Industries Index.
Tracking Growth, Targets and Capacity Utilisation
PAIMANA’s Performance Monitoring Dashboard allows Ministries, policymakers and researchers to view infrastructure performance through interactive visualisations and time-series analysis.
The system tracks indicators such as:
- year-on-year growth,
- month-on-month growth,
- cumulative performance,
- progress against targets, and
- capacity utilisation.
By bringing these indicators into a single platform, the government can compare performance across infrastructure sectors instead of examining each Ministry independently.
This cross-sector visibility can be particularly useful because infrastructure networks are interconnected.
Railway freight depends on ports and industrial activity.
Road investment influences logistics costs.
Electricity reliability affects manufacturing and digital infrastructure.
Telecommunications networks increasingly interact with transport, power and governance systems.
A consolidated dashboard therefore makes it easier to identify relationships between sectors that might otherwise remain hidden within separate departmental databases.
From Output Monitoring to Infrastructure Outcomes
One of the most important aspects of the revamped monitoring framework is its shift away from purely measuring physical output.
Traditional infrastructure monitoring often focused on quantities such as kilometres of highway constructed, railway lines commissioned, electricity generated or port capacity created.
PAIMANA’s expanded performance framework attempts to measure infrastructure across several additional dimensions.
Access examines how widely infrastructure is available.
Quality evaluates reliability and usefulness.
Fiscal cost and revenue assess the financial resources devoted to infrastructure and the returns generated.
Utilisation measures whether infrastructure capacity is actually being used efficiently.
Affordability examines whether services remain economically accessible to users.
Together, these indicators allow policymakers to examine not merely whether infrastructure exists, but whether it is functioning effectively.
Ministries Get Direct Access to Project Analytics
The PAIMANA system is also designed as an active management tool rather than simply a public reporting database.
Concerned Ministries and Departments receive regular updates based on analytics generated through the platform.
Monthly review meetings and other coordination mechanisms are used to identify projects requiring intervention.
Individual Ministries and Departments have been provided with login credentials for customised dashboards, allowing officials to directly examine the progress of projects under their responsibility.
The system therefore creates the possibility of moving from retrospective reporting towards earlier identification of delays, financial bottlenecks and implementation problems.
Why API-Based Monitoring
The increasing use of automated API connections could eventually become one of PAIMANA’s most important features.
Historically, large government monitoring systems have often depended upon Ministries periodically submitting figures to a central database.
Such systems can suffer from reporting delays, inconsistent formats and duplication of data entry.
By connecting PAIMANA directly with individual Ministry management systems, project information can increasingly flow automatically.
With more than 60 per cent of projects already being updated through APIs, the platform is moving towards a system in which infrastructure monitoring is based on continuously integrated administrative data rather than isolated periodic submissions.
This can improve both the timeliness and consistency of information available to policymakers.
A Digital Command Layer for India’s Infrastructure Programme
The significance of PAIMANA ultimately lies in the scale of infrastructure expenditure now taking place across India.
With ₹40.54 lakh crore worth of ongoing Central Sector projects under monitoring, delays or cost overruns in even a small proportion of the portfolio can have major fiscal and economic consequences.
PAIMANA provides the government with a common digital layer connecting project implementation, expenditure tracking, physical progress and sectoral performance.
The addition of PAIMANA-CRIP is intended to consolidate project information that previously existed across multiple systems, while the Performance Monitoring Dashboard adds a broader view of whether infrastructure sectors are delivering the intended outcomes.
If this integration continues, PAIMANA could gradually become much more than a project database.
It could function as a central infrastructure intelligence platform, connecting Ministries, implementing agencies and high-level government review mechanisms through a common pool of verified data.
For a country simultaneously expanding highways, railways, airports, ports, power networks, urban infrastructure, telecommunications and logistics capacity, such integration is increasingly necessary.
The next stage of infrastructure governance will therefore depend not only on how quickly India builds, but also on how effectively it can measure, analyse and correct the implementation of what it builds.
PAIMANA represents an attempt to create that data-driven monitoring architecture.
Source
Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation / Press Information Bureau, Government of India — 10 August 2026.
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