Gati Shakti initiative to help reduce logistic obstacles, increase efficiency: DPIIT Secy

The PM GatiShakti initiative will play a significant role in reducing logistics costs, increasing efficiency and benefiting businesses, a top government official said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Gati Shakti- National Master Plan aimed at developing an integrated infrastructure to reduce logistic costs on October 13 last year.

All logistics and connectivity infrastructure projects, entailing an investment of over `500 crore, are routed through the NPG (network planning group) constituted under the PM GatiShakti initiative.




PM GatiShakti "will play a significant role in reducing the logistic obstacles and increase logistics efficiency and benefit the businesses," secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Anurag Jain, said here at the inaugural session of B20 Inception Meeting, organised by industry body CII.

He also said the PM GatiShakti portal has over 1,600 data layers related to subjects such as land, forest, mines and existing infrastructure.

The NPG has representations from various connectivity infrastructure ministries/departments involving their heads of network planning division for unified planning and integration of the proposals.