PM Gati Shakti Plan- The National Master Plan is a digital platform that will bring together 16 ministries and departments in order to provide multimodal connectivity to economic zones. PM GatiShakti – National Master Plan, a digital platform that will bring together 16 ministries and departments for multi-modal connectivity to economic zones, was unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday.
GatiShakti, according to the government, will focus on integrated planning and coordination of all infrastructure connectivity projects. All of the projects on the platform are in GIS mode, with high resolution satellite images, infrastructure, utilities, administrative boundaries, land, and logistics, and are expected to be completed by 2024-25.
“GatiShakti will be a National Infrastructure Master Plan for our country which will lay the foundation of holistic infrastructure. Right now, there is no coordination between our means of transport. Gati Shakti will break the silos and will remove all these obstacles,” PTI reported an official as saying.
On August 15, Prime Minister Modi announced the project during his Independence Day speech. He had stated that the project would provide future employment opportunities for thousands of young people across the country. “In the coming days, we will launch PM Gati Shakti Plan, a 100 lakh crore national infrastructure master plan which will make a foundation for holistic infrastructure and give an integrated pathway to our economy,” Modi said.
PM Gati Shakti Yojana Details
PM Modi’s inclusive development agenda continues with this master plan.
By lending them more money and increasing their speed, this project would aid in the improvement of National Infrastructure.
PM Gati Shakti’s National Master Plan would include projects under the $1.5 trillion National Infrastructure Pipeline.
Private players would also be encouraged to invest in national infrastructure due to the ease with which they could obtain clearances and financial assistance.
In addition, this project would provide last-mile connectivity to economic zones within a set time frame.
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Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti Yojana Aim
Gati Shakti’s main goal is to give India the boost it needs in terms of productive capacity and global competitiveness in the manufacturing sector. India needs to achieve its ambitious goal of becoming a $5 trillion economy, which it can do if it is given a timely push. It’s all about timing and capacity building for the PM Gati Shakti Mission.
The “PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan for Multi-Modal Infrastructure Connectivity to Economic Zones” will include projects under various ministries’ flagship schemes such as Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Udaan, railway network expansion, inland waterways, and Bharat Net.
According to officials, seamless multi-modal connectivity will ensure the smooth movement of goods and people, as well as improve the ease of living and doing business.
Gati Shakti will also contribute to the government’s ambitious 2024-25 targets, which include expanding the national highway network to 2 lakh route kilometres, building over 200 airports, heliports, and water aerodromes, and doubling the gas pipeline network to 35,000 kilometres.
Here’s what the government aims to achieve by 2024-25 under Gati Shakti.
- 11 industrial corridors and two new defence corridors in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh
- 4G connectivity in all villages
- Increasing renewable energy capacity to 225 GW from 87.7 GW
- Extending the national highway network to 2 lakh km
- Extending the transmission network to 4,54,200 circuit km
- Building 220 new airports, heliports, and water aerodromes
- Increasing railway cargo handling capacity to 1,600 million tonnes from 1210 million tonnes
PM Gati Shakti Yojana Significance
Interministerial delays, multiple stakeholders, and a culture of working in silos hampered India’s projects in the past. This resulted in cost overruns and hampered decision-making, causing the projects and development to be postponed indefinitely.
The Gati Shakti Master Plan would close these loopholes and consolidate infrastructure projects along specific corridors, avoiding the need to go through multiple lengthy approval processes.
Under Gati Shakti, there would also be a digital platform with a geographic information system (GIS) that would be useful for gathering relevant information on any region’s topography, satellite images, and physical features. This would allow ministries to save money while also approving projects on time.
PM Gati Shakti Yojana Important Points
1. Bharatmala, Sagarmala, UDAN, inland waterways, dry/land ports, and other infrastructure schemes of various Union ministries and state governments will be incorporated into GatiShakti.
2. To improve connectivity, economic zones such as textile, pharmaceutical, and fishing clusters, as well as electronic parks, defence and industrial corridors, and agriculture zones, will be covered.
3. The Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BiSAG-N) will use technology, including spatial planning tools based on ISRO imagery. The Ministry of Information Technology oversees BiSAG-N. (MeITY).
4. GatiShakti aims to improve industry productivity, competitiveness, and support local manufacturers while also assisting in the development of new economic zones.
5. A master plan has been created that depicts economic zones as well as the infrastructure connections that are required to support them in order to ensure seamless goods movement.
6. The nodal ministry will be the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), which will oversee and implement all projects, with a national planning group taking stock on a regular basis.
7. An empowered group of secretaries will be formed under the chairmanship of the cabinet secretary to approve any changes to the master plan that are required.
8. All existing and proposed economic zones have been mapped on a single platform over three time periods: 2014-15 status, 2020-21 achievements, and 2024-25 planned interventions.
9. Information about upcoming connectivity projects, industrial areas, other business hubs, and the surrounding environment will be made available to the public and business community so that investors can plan their businesses.
10. The plan aims to improve the “global competitiveness of local products by lowering logistics costs and improving supply chains,” as well as ensuring proper linkages between local industry and consumers, according to the government.
Logistics hubs
The Prime Minister used the example of Dadri, where an integrated industrial township is being built, to say that India needed similar “plug and play” infrastructure so that investors could come in and start working immediately.
Such an integrated township could be connected to the eastern and western dedicated freight corridor, as in Greater Noida’s Dadri. Multi-modal logistics hubs with a state-of-the-art railway terminus, inter- and intra-State bus terminus, mass rapid transit system, and other conveniences would be built alongside.
“By building these across different parts of the country, India could achieve the dream of becoming the world’s business capital,” he underlined.
“Our goals are extraordinary and will require extraordinary efforts. In realising these goals, PM Gati Shakti will be the most helpful factor. Just as JAM [Jan Dhan, Aadhar, Mobile] trinity revolutionised the access of government facilities to the people, PM Gati Shakti will do the same for the field of Infrastructure,” Mr. Modi said.
Stalled projects
Mr. Modi said that after taking over as Prime Minister in 2014, he reviewed hundreds of stalled infrastructure projects and decided to put all of them on a single platform and try to remove roadblocks. With a “whole of government approach,” the government’s collective power is now being channelled into implementing the plans, avoiding delays caused by coordination gaps.
“Because of this, many unfinished projects are being completed for decades now,” he said, citing improved infrastructure outcomes in the last seven years across sectors, ranging from railway line electrification to gas pipelines, metro rail services and mega food parks.
“There were just five waterways in 2014. Today, there are 13 functional waterways. Turnaround time of the vessels at the ports has come down to 27 hours from 41 hours in 2014. Today, India has 4.25 lakh circuit kilometre power transmission lines compared to 3 lakh circuit kilometres in 2014,” the Prime Minister said at the launch of the Gati Shakti programme.
Highways and Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari, Power Minister R.K. Singh, Telecom and Railways Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, Petroleum Minister Hardeep Puri, and Industry and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal were among the Union Ministers who attended the launch.
M.K. Stalin, the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu, and Yogi Adityanath, the Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh, were in attendance virtually, as were the Chief Ministers of Gujarat and Tripura, as well as the Lieutenant Governors of Delhi, Jammu and Kashmir, and Andaman and Nicobar.
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