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NATION PRADHAN MANTRI
GATISHAKTI YOJANA

INFRASTRUCTURE

WILL GET NEW MOMENTUM

Railway Industrial node UDAN Yojana
Proposal to set up 4 industrial nodes. These
will be made in Dadri in Uttar Pradesh, n Regional connectivity
The cargo handling capacity of the Tumkur in Karnataka, and Shendra Bidkin in under UDAN will be
Railways will be increased to 1600 Maharashtra. accelerated in the
metric tons by the year 2024-25. At National Industrial Corridor country through
present, it is 1200 MT. The construction Gatishakti Yojana. The
of DFC will be expedited. Under this, there is a plan to build 11 number of airports/
industrial corridors across the country by heliports/water
The plan is to double the gas pipeline 2024-25. Along with this, 2 defence corridors aerodromes will
network in the country to 34,500 km by will also be constructed. increase to 220 by the
2024-25. Government's plan is to airports, helipads, and aerodromes year 2024-25. It will
connect every state with the natural gas will be constructed by the year have 109 new airports.
pipeline by 2027. 2024-25. n Under this, the

E-connectivity Renewable energy Transmission development work of
existing 51 airstrips in

By 2022, all villages A target of 225 GW A target of 4,54,200 the country, 18 new
projects, 12 water
across the country will of renewable energy circuit km transmission aerodromes, and 28
be connected through generation has been set network has been set by heliports will be
4G mobile connectivity. by 2024-25. 2024-25. included.

2 lakh km long national highway Plan to lay

National Highways operated by NHAI will be 202
expanded to 2 lakh km in length by 2024-25. In the lakh km of optical
year 2014, it was only 91,000 km and by the end of
this November i.e. 2021, it will be 1.3 lakh km. fiber network by 2024.
This will also greatly accelerate defence
production. There are plans to build two defence Target to carry the
cargo of 29 million
corridors in Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu with metric tonnes in river
an investment of about Rs 20,000 crore. Due to Ganga and 95 million
this, defence products worth about Rs 1.7 lakh metric tonnes in other
crore will be produced in India. rivers.

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