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THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF GATISHAKTI

Gatishakti will be a National Infrastructure Master
Plan for our country, which will lay the foundation
for the overall infrastructure. Under the Pradhan
Mantri Gatishakti Yojana, 16 ministries and
departments have put all those projects in
Geographical Information System (GIS) mode,
which are to be completed by 2024-25.
It will incorporate the infrastructure schemes of
various Ministries and State Governments like
Bharatmala, Sagarmala, inland waterways, dry/
land ports, UDAN etc.
This digital platform will help in carrying out
the infrastructure development works at full
speed. This will help in increasing the efficiency
of the industries. Local manufacturers will be
encouraged. It will enhance the competitiveness IT WILL MAKE PEOPLE'S
of industries and also help in developing new LIFE EASIER
possibilities for the creation of economic zones
in the future. Under this scheme, the obstacles due to
PM GatiShakti will resolve all the past issues by unplanned construction activities will be
institutionalizing the overall plan for all aspects of removed. This will allow movement in the
major infrastructure projects. Instead of planning country without any hindrance. Travel time of
and designing in isolation from each other, the people will be reduced. This will also create
projects will be designed and implemented from new employment opportunities and improve
a common perspective. the ease of doing business. Better planning
It will be an ambitious and comprehensive
geospatial digital platform of the Modi will increase production efficiency. There will
government, through which projects will be less cost and no delay in implementing
be planned in an integrated manner and infrastructure-related projects. This will also
implemented in a coordinated manner. Initially, encourage investment and competition.
this will introduce new changes in the projects
of the central government, later this trend will be In the year 2014, the process to overhaul
taken to the level of the municipal corporation. infrastructure began, it also started to bridge
It will have a central national master plan the gap in infrastructure development, which the
for multimodal connectivity infrastructure in country was waiting for for 70 years. In the earlier
different economic zones. This will include times, there would be an announcement, then
national highways, freight corridors of railways, planning was done, the budget was prepared and
gas pipelines, airports, aviation, manufacturing with many such phases, the work which should
of medicines, electronic items, food processing, have been completed in 2 or 4 years used to take
defence production, industrial corridors, etc. 50 years.
Initially, 16 ministries have been identified that Several projects like the Kollam bypass in Kerala
look after infrastructure development or are and the Bogibeel bridge in Assam are examples of
the economic drivers. Under this, plot-level 3D this. The reason was a lack of coordination. But
visualization mapping will be created enabling a this culture of delaying and wandering has ended
low-cost and user-friendly infrastructure. now. In the words of Prime Minister Narendra
In this digital system, ministries will be given Modi, “A time-bound work culture is evolving now.
separate login IDs, in which they will be able to The projects for which foundation stones are laid
update their data regularly. All these data will be are also inaugurated. It's not arrogance, it's our
on one platform. public commitment."

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