PM Gati Shakti completes 2 years

• The PM Gati Shakti initiative, aimed at transforming the infrastructure growth in the country, has reached its two-year milestone.

ABOUT PM GATI SHAKTI

• The government launched the PM Gati Shakti program in 2021, with the goal of achieving self-reliance and a $5 trillion economy by 2025.
• To realise this vision, there was a pressing need to establish a comprehensive and efficient multimodal transportation and last-mile connectivity infrastructure across the country.
• PM Gati Shakti aims to achieve these objectives through integrated planning and coordinated project execution involving all relevant ministries and state governments.
• The primary aim of this initiative is to enhance multimodal connectivity, improve logistics efficiency, and address crucial infrastructure deficiencies to ensure seamless movement of people, goods, and services across the nation.
• The program also seeks to integrate the infrastructure schemes of various ministries and state governments, including Bharatmala, Sagarmala, land ports, UDAN, and more.

MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS

• The government has evaluated more than 300 central and state projects worth ₹11.58 lakh crore in two years.
• The projects evaluated under PM Gati Shakti include over 200 state projects worth over ₹5,000 crore for improving logistic infrastructure and 156 critical infrastructure gap projects for first and last-mile connectivity.
• Among the central infrastructure projects, 45 railway projects worth ₹6.06 lakh crore and 47 road projects worth ₹4.19 lakh crore were evaluated, besides eight projects worth ₹79,000 crore of the housing and urban affairs ministry and one project of over ₹ 20,000 crore of the new and renewable energy ministry.
• As per the analysis, the initiative has significantly improved the ease of doing business by bringing down the pre-alignment finalisation time for infrastructure projects from three-four months earlier to one month now.
• Besides, the NOC approvals for all projects are now digitised and integrated via the Gati Shakti portal unlike earlier.