PM GatiShakti recommends 66 big-ticket projects worth Rs 5 trillion

PM GatiShakti to help in planning social infrastructure: Piyush Goyal

Over the past eight months, an inter-ministerial panel spearheaded by the industry department has evaluated 66 big-ticket projects with a cost of more than Rs 500 crore. The total cost of these projects would be Rs 5 trillion, industry department’s special secretary Sumita Dawra told reporters.

These include projects, such as Marwar Industrial Cluster (Rs 922 crore), Barbil-Nayagarh-Barsun (Rs 8,840 crore) new railway line, Gurdaspur-Jammu-Srinagar natural gas pipeline (Rs 6,931 crore), among others. All these projects have been approved and budgeted for by respective ministries.

Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said the Prime Minister GatiShakti national masterplan portal would help in planning social infrastructure, such as schools, nursing homes, hospitals, in addition to its primary goal of addressing critical infrastructure gaps across the country.

Currently, there are about 1,300 layers of data, consisting of forests, wildlife sanctuaries, rivers, Unesco world heritage sites, among others. 

“Data layers of GatiShakti engage with each other through APIs, and if an alignment of a particular project was put into GatiShakti, it would highlight the challenges of implementation and help re-align the project, saving time and cost,” Goyal said at an industry event, adding that 12 states had so far digitised their land records on the portal.