PM GATISHAKTI NATIONAL MASTER PLAN

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PM GatiShakti is a transformative approach for economic growth and sustainable development.
The approach is driven by seven engines, namely, Roads, Railways, Airports, Ports, Mass Transport, Waterways, and Logistics Infrastructure.
While presenting the Union Budget 2022-23 in Parliament today the union minister for Finance & Corporate Affairs, Smt.Nirmala Sitharaman said all seven engines will pull forward the economy in unison.
These engines are supported by the complementary roles of Energy Transmission, IT Communication, Bulk Water & Sewerage, and Social Infrastructure.

Gati shakti is a digital platform that will bring 16 ministries including railways and roadways together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects.
This will help in removing long-standing issues such as disjointed planning, lack of standardization, problems with clearances, and timely creation and utilization of infrastructure capacities.
The Gati Shakti scheme will subsume the Rs.110 lakh crore National Infrastructure Pipeline that was launched in 2019.
The portal will offer 200+ layers of geospatial data, including that on existing infrastructure.
It will also allow various government departments to track, in real-time and at one centralized place, the progress of various projects.
It will help different departments to prioritize their projects through cross-sectoral interactions.
The Gati shakti platform aims to prevent overlapping of works by addressing the issue of government departments working in tandem.
By incorporating infrastructure schemes under various ministries and states, the platform aims at boosting last-mile connectivity bringing down logistics costs with integrated planning and reducing implementation overlaps.

A project monitoring group under the Department of Promotion of industry and Internal trade (DPIIT)will monitor the progress of key projects in real-time.
They will also report any inter-ministerial issues to a group of ministries, who will then aim to resolve these.
PM Gati Shakti will incorporate the infrastructure schemes of various Ministries and State Governments like Bharatmala, Sagarmala, inland waterways, dry/land ports, UDAN, etc.
Economic Zones like textile clusters, pharmaceutical clusters, defence corridors, electronic parks, industrial corridors, fishing clusters, Agri zones will be covered to improve connectivity & make Indian businesses more competitive.

Source: THE HINDU.