PM GatiShakti: 208 infra projects worth Rs 15.39 lakh crore recommended for approval

As galore arsenic 208 big-ticket infrastructure projects of antithetic ministries, including roads and railways, worthy Rs 15.39 lakh crore person been recommended for support nether the PM GatiShakti inaugural truthful far, a apical authorities authoritative said connected Saturday. These projects person been recommended by the Network Planning Group (NPG) constituted nether the PM GatiShakti inaugural launched connected October 13, 2021.

"So far, 208 projects person been assessed nether the inaugural worthy Rs 15.39 lakh crore," Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Amardeep Singh Bhatia told reporters.

There are respective benefits of utilizing the system, including important cuts successful clip and outgo for readying these infrastructure projects, helium added.

The maximum fig of projects recommended by the radical are related to roads (101), railways (73), municipality improvement (12), and 4 from the lipid and state ministry.

The inter-ministerial NPG meets each fortnight and appraises infra projects to guarantee multi-modality, synchronisation of efforts, and broad improvement successful and astir the task location.

The inaugural was launched to make an integrated infrastructure to trim logistics costs. All logistics and connectivity infrastructure projects, entailing investments of implicit Rs 500 crore are routed done the NPG.

The NPG's support is required earlier the clearance of the task by the Public Investment Board (PIB) oregon Department of Expenditure nether the concern ministry.

The NMP (National Master Plan) has implicit 1,600 layers of geospatial data, showing each carnal and societal infrastructure of an country and onshore records successful 1 place. It has been designed for faster readying and amended plan truthful that the interaction of an concern is maximised.

The NPG has representations from assorted connectivity infrastructure ministries/ departments, involving their heads of web readying part for unified readying and integration of the proposals.

All these departments attack the NPG archetypal for support earlier making a DPR (Detailed Project Report) astatine the readying stage. After the NPG's clearance, the task follows the mean process of support by the concern ministry and the Cabinet.

Over 1,600 layers of data, including those related to land, ports, forests, and highways, are disposable connected the portal.

Usage of the portal by antithetic ministries, including societal assemblage departments and states, is increasing, and it is helping successful the due readying of projects.

Also, arsenic galore arsenic 156 captious infrastructure gaps to ports and for question of bulk commodities similar coal, cement, fertilisers and foodgrains, person been identified for involution nether the PM Gati Shakti initiative.

The section is moving with states for integration of updated onshore grounds data, the authoritative added.

Besides, helium said that Nepal and Sri Lanka person shown keen involvement successful this initiative.

"We tin rotation it for them also. With Sri Lanka, we are moving retired the things," helium said.

He said that the section is moving to rotation retired the inaugural astatine the territory level, and successful the adjacent 1-2 months, "we should beryllium capable to rotation it out".