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 power nine years ago, its repeated message to bureaucrats has been to coordinate better and work as one entity.