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Cover Story India Moving Towards Permanent Solution

A LONG-TERM SOLUTION TO CONNECTIVITY

GATISHAKTI TRANSFORMING

INFRASTRUCTURE SECTOR

You must have seen the road dug up PRAGATI Platform
for cables and pipelines after it was
built. This is because neither the Through this, Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself
coordination of the agencies working monitors the ongoing development projects across the
on the infrastructure projects nor country. Its objective is to avoid delays in infrastructure
the planning of these projects was projects. So far, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has
done with the future in mind. The PM reviewed more than 315 projects worth about Rs 15 lakh
Gatishakti National Master Plan has crore in 40 meetings of 'PRAGATI'.
been launched to address this issue.
A coordination system has PROJECTS PENDING FOR DECADES COMPLETED.
been prepared by connecting
16 departments of the Central Project Year of How much When
Government through a unified portal. approval delay completed?
This scheme will also help the
government meet many of its Uttar Pradesh Saryu 1978 4 Decade 2021
ambitious goals, which it hopes to canal project
achieve by 2024-25. These include the Kosi Rail Mahasetu 2003-04 2 Decades 2020
construction of more than 200 airports,
heliports, the expansion of the national in Bihar
highway network to 2 lakh kilometres, Kollam Bypass in 1975 5 Decades 2019
the expansion of the gas pipeline Kerala
network to 35,000 kilometres, the
construction of 11 industrial corridors, Bogibeel Bridge in 1997 2 Decades 2018
and the construction of two defence Assam
corridors.
The National Infrastructure Pipeline Atal Tunnel 2000 2 Decades 2020
Plan, worth more than Rs 100 lakh Eastern Feral 2006 1 Decade 2016/2018
crore, is also included in this master
plan. Expressway

country's security. We are now proud of surgical and five major initiatives to keep and save the soil: First,
air strikes. The country's borders are more secure how to make the soil chemical-free. Second, how can
than they were previously. Earlier, the country's the creatures that live in the soil be saved? Third, how
unbalanced development and discrimination harmed to keep the soil moist and increase the availability of
the Northeast and East India regions. Extremism water till that level. Fourth, how to overcome the soil
is diminishing . Whether Northeast or East India, damage caused by less groundwater, and fifth, how
modern infrastructure and connectivity is there. to stop the continuous erosion of the soil caused by
the loss of forest cover. Keeping all of this in mind,
INITIATIVE COMMITTED TO AGRICULTURE the most significant change that has occurred in
AND FARMERS the country in recent years has been the country's
Collective action seeks solutions to problems. In agricultural policy. Previously, our country's farmers
the last eight years, the country has concentrated on lacked knowledge about the soil in their fields. Now,

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