Gati Shakti National Master Plan

On 13^th October, 2021, government launched the Gati Shakti National Master Plan to boost Indian infrastructure and multi-modal connectivity over the next 25 years and reduce logistics cost for improved global competitiveness.

• Implementation: The Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade is the nodal agency.
• There is an Integrated Multimodal Network Planning Group (NPG) which is entrusted with unified planning and integration of proposals as well as connectivity projects which are not part of the current master plan.

Infrastructure Development Targets

• 11 industrial corridors, achieving a Rs 1.7 lakh crore turnover in defence production and having 38 electronics manufacturing clusters and 109 pharma clusters by 2024-25.
• National Highways of 2 lakh kms, completion of four or six-lane national highways of 5,590 km along coastal areas and all state capitals in north-east to be connected with four-lane national highways or 2 two-lane national highways.
• Railways to handle cargo of 1,600 million tons by 2025 from 1,210 million tons in 2020. Decongesting 51 percent of the Railway network by completing additional lines and implementation of two Dedicated Freight Corridors.
• Double the gas pipeline network to 34,500 km by 2024-25.
• Total power transmission network to be 4.52 lakh circuit km by 2024-25 and the renewable energy capacity is expected to be increased to 225 GW from 87.7 GW presently.

Benefits

• It is intended to break Departmental Silos and bring in more holistic and integrated planning and execution of projects with a view to addressing the issues of multi-modal connectivity and last-mile connectivity.