PM Gati Shakti

In news–The Prime Minister recently hosted a virtual meet to apprise the states of the government’s latest push towards its ambitious Gati Shakti approach. launched for multi-modal connectivity.

About PM Gati Shakti-

The 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.
The aim of the new plan is to cut logistic costs, increase cargo handling capacity and reduce the turnaround time.
The multi-modal connectivity will provide integrated and seamless connectivity for movement of people, goods and services from one mode of transport to another.
It will provide the public and business community information regarding the upcoming connectivity projects, other business hubs, industrial areas and surrounding environment.
This will enable the investors to plan their businesses at suitable locations leading to enhanced synergies.
It will improve the global competitiveness of local products by cutting down the logistics costs and improving the supply chains, and also ensure proper linkages for local industry & consumers.
It will cover the infrastructure projects worth over Rs 500 crore of various Ministries of the Union 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.

It is based on six pillars:

Comprehensiveness: It will include all the existing and planned initiatives of various Ministries and Departments with one centralized portal.
Prioritization: Through this, different Departments will be able to prioritize their projects through cross–sectoral interactions.
Optimization: For the transportation of the goods from one place to another, the plan will help in selecting the most optimum route in terms of time and cost.
Synchronization: PM Gati Shakti will help in synchronizing the activities of each department, as well as of different layers of governance, in a holistic manner by ensuring coordination of work between them.
Analytical: The plan will provide the entire data at one place with GIS based spatial planning and analytical tools having 200+ layers, enabling better visibility to the executing agency.
Dynamic: All Ministries and Departments will now be able to visualize, review and monitor the progress of cross-sectoral projects, through the GIS platform, as the satellite imagery will give on-ground progress periodically and progress of the projects will be updated on a regular basis on the portal.