The government is considering ways to give the private sector access to non-sensitive data on the Gati Shakti platform, Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal said at a Business Standard event late on Monday. In a fireside chat at ‘Gati-Shakti Connect’, organised by the newspaper, Goyal pointed out that there would be checks and balances […]
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Govt projects in fast lane: Record completion rates hit decade high
The government’s push for better coordination of infrastructure projects appears to be bearing fruit with project completion rates up, data indicates. The latest figures from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) reveal a surge in the value of concluded government projects, reaching a peak in June – a record spanning over a decade. In […]
Gati shakti framework could unsnarl India’s infrastructure bottlenecks
Many infrastructure development projects in India have faced implementation challenges, leading to significant cost and time overruns. According to data published by the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation (Mospi), as of July 2023, of a total of 1,646 central infrastructure projects costing Rs 150 crore and above, 809 were running behind their original schedules, […]
India on the move: Gati Shakti helps ministries, states to work as a team
Anyone who has dealt with government departments would know, from experience, what this expression means: The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing. The central government hopes to change this perception. And it intends to do so by demolishing silos and breaking barriers. Since the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)-led government came to […]
Revolutionising logistics: How Gati Shakti is transforming supply chains
Imagine a spice farmer in Wayanad, Kerala, sending his produce to Europe. His logistics partner is in a position to deploy trucks on demand, almost immediately, because of the predictability of turnaround times afforded by reliable highways. The trucks need to travel a few hundred kilometres to reach a state-of-the art multimodal cargo terminal, where […]
Industry leaders laud Gati Shakti for streamlining infrastructure growth
The infrastructure sector — from roads and railways to power and telecom — stands to benefit from the streamlining of resources under Gati Shakti, which will expedite the growth of these sectors. In a conversation with Suveen Sinha, industry leaders who were part of a panel discussion on “Gati Shakti: Hopes and Aspirations of Infra […]
Gati Shakti master plan: Transforming infra planning with holistic approach
When Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the creation of the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP), there was little clarity on how it would work and how it intended to solve historic infrastructure planning issues, which were deep-rooted within the system. Today, the initiative has been used to evaluate over 100 projects worth trillions […]
Cost overruns ebb, yet delays persist in half of major infra projects
The efforts to enhance coordination among ministries might have contributed to a decline in cost overruns, yet nearly half of the major infrastructure projects still confront delays. Data from the Ministry of Statistics and Programme Implementation’s (MoSPI’s) monthly flash reports reveals that in June 2023, cost overruns were reduced to 19.5 per cent compared to […]
Unlocking India’s infrastructure: How technology powers Gati Shakti mission
While the Gati Shakti mission addresses critical infrastructure challenges in the country, an unassuming institution located in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, plays a pivotal role as its technological bedrock. This hub, the Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N), serves as the wellspring of everything, from on-ground intelligence through geospatial imagery to real-time application programming […]
Projects worth Rs 12 trn planned under Gati Shakti initiative: Piyush Goyal
The concept of Gati Shakti was first articulated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi nearly 15 years ago, when he was the chief minister of Gujarat. The Prime Minister’s vision was that a large country the size of India, with scarce resources at its command, should get the highest bang for every buck of the public […]
Road, renewables capex likely to rise by 35% in FY24 & FY25: CRISIL
The total capital outlay for roads and renewables in 2023-24 and 2024-25 is likely to jump by 35 per cent to Rs 13 lakh crore compared to that in the last two fiscal years, according to a report. Conducive policies, rising investor interest and strong execution speed are expected to drive the capital outlay in […]
PM Gati Shakti: Infra projects worth Rs 5.89 trn recommended for approval
As many as 100 big ticket infrastructure projects of different ministries worth Rs 5.89 lakh crore have been recommended for approval under the PM Gati Shakti initiative so far this fiscal, a senior official said on Monday. These projects have been recommended by the Network Planning Group (NPG) constituted under the PM Gati Shakti initiative […]