Union Secretary DPIIT (Industry Promotion and Internal Trade Department, Ministry of Commerce and Industry) Anurag Jain reviewed the PM Gati Shakti Yojana in the state and said that all the departments related to infrastructure construction should upload the information of upcoming projects on the portal within the time-limit.
He instructed to instantly inform any problem related to the portal. In order to use the Gati Shakti portal, the concerned officials were asked to get training from BISAG (Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics) team.
Union Secretary Jain said that PM Gati Shakti Portal includes all the existing and planned initiatives of various ministries and departments. Each department will now be able to work at a faster pace by sharing information on each other’s activities while providing vital data while planning and executing the project in a comprehensive manner.
The National Master Plan will assist various departments in planning the projects. It will reduce the time and cost of planning to move goods from one place to another. Union Secretary Jain said that the scheme is a GIS based spatial scheme, which will provide complete data at one place with multiple analytical tools, which will enable the executing agency to work more efficiently. He said that PM Gati Shakti will increase the ‘Ease of Living’ of the citizens.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had launched PM Gati Shakti, a national master plan for multi-modal connectivity in October-2021. The scheme is an integrated scheme of infrastructure connectivity projects, bringing together 16 ministries, including railways and roadways, on a single digital platform.
It is a connectivity plan for the movement of people, goods and services from one mode of transport to another. It will facilitate last mile connectivity of infrastructure and also reduce travel time for people.
The meeting was attended by Additional Chief Secretary MPWRD and NVDA S.N. Mishra, Additional Chief Secretary PHE Malay Shrivastava apart from senior officers of Public Works Department, Urban Development, Urban Development and Housing, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Energy, Food and Civil Supplies, Narmada Valley, Tourism, Panchayat and Rural Development, Science and Information Technology Senior officers of Water Resources, Revenue, Mineral and Forest Department.