PM Gati Shakti plan will help save taxpayers’ money, says Goyal
The Pradhan Mantri Gati Shakti National Master Plan will help develop the future infrastructure in a planned manner, prevent cost overrun, and increase India’s cost competitiveness, besides saving taxpayers’ money, Union Minister Piyush Goyal said on Saturday.
He said 1,000 geospatial maps have been formed for forests, wildlife sanctuaries, highways and railway infrastructure, power plants and industrial zones in India.
“Maps of states are also being integrated with them. By the last count, around 450 infrastructure data has been mapped,” the Commerce and Industry Minister said.
Gujarat-based Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N), which works to implement map-based Geospatial Information Systems (GIS), has developed the PM Gati Shakti Master Plan, Goyal said.
