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How GatiShakti Public could rewire India's infrastructure playbook
The GatiShakti framework, launched in 2021, sought to correct this by integrating geospatial data across the transport, energy, logistics, and urban sectors
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The government has rightly restricted access to certain sensitive layers but a broader governance framework is essential to ensure data integrity, accountability, and security. (Illustration: Binay Sinha)
The launch of PM GatiShakti Public marks an important milestone in India’s journey towards transparent, data-driven infrastructure planning. Four years after the platform brought together information from 57 ministries on a single, digital interface, this query-based web platform allows users to access 230 approved datasets covering physical- and social-infrastructure assets. It aims to make infrastructure and geospatial data a shared national resource rather than a government silo, enabling a better project design, inter-agency coordination, and private-sector participation. For decades, India’s infrastructure bottlenecks have stemmed not only from financing gaps but also from fragmented planning. Ministries and departments have
