Piyush Goyal evaluates progress made under PM GatiShakti National Master Plan by different Ministries

Commerce and Industry Ministry said that as on March 31, 2022 the Road Transport Ministry has completed 1,41,190 kilometre of national highways out of the set target of 2 lakh km for 2024-25. Also, The Petroleum Ministry has completed laying of a gas pipeline of 20,000 km out of 34,500 km targeted for the same period of time. Furthermore, the Power Ministry has also exceeded its target for laying the transmission network of 4,54,200 km till the end of March 2022.

The progress of such projects was discussed in a review meeting on PM GatiShakti on April 13. It was chaired by Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal.

The Department of Tecommunication has created Optical fibre cables (OFC) network of 33,00,997 km as on 31st March 2022 against the set target of 50,00,000 km for 2024-25.

The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) is an integrated plan depicting all the existing and proposed development initiatives of various ministries/departments for better synergy.

"During a presentation made by the Special Secretary, Logistics Division, DPIIT (Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade), the ministry-wise progress on the targets set under the PM GatiShakti were discussed. The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways has completed 1,41,190 km of National Highways as on 31st March 2022 out of the set target of 2,00,000 km for 2024-25," it said.

"States have been onboarded and institutional set-up has been constituted in states as well to streamline and demonstrate the concept of PM GatiShakti," the ministry said.

The Empowered Group of Secretaries has been constituted in 25 states, the NPG is functional in nine states and the Technical Support Unit has been set up in six states.

"The benefits and on-ground impact of the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan portal were also illustrated. Various ministries/departments and state governments have started using this portal for integration and synchronization of implementation efforts, optimization of cost and time at the stage of planning of infrastructure projects," it added.

“To achieve its objective to provide 50 Mbps of bandwidth to the citizens under the National Broadband Mission, planning for connecting all the non-fiberized towers through the OFC is being done through the PM GatiShakti NMP. All the non-fiberized towers and existing OFC Network is mapped on the Department of Telecommunication GatiShakti Portal,” it revealed.

The statement also said that based on the data and Planning criteria, the tool is being developed to get the length of required OFC and cost of OFC Laying.

The meeting witnessed the presence of Railway Board Chairman V K Tripathi; Secretary in the Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways Sanjeev Ranjan; Civil Aviation Secretary Rajiv Bansal; DPIIT Secretary Anurag Jain and senior officials from all other infrastructure ministries.