New Delhi, Oct 15: Union Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal today launched the district version of PM GatiShakti National Master Plan for 27 aspirational districts in the country on the occasion of completion of 3 years of PM GatiShakti.
Speaking on the occasion, Goyal said that Gatishakti is a super intellegent tool for infrastructure planning and that the District Master Plan will be expanded to cover more than 750 districts across the country in the next 18 months.
Goyal also launched the ‘Guidelines for Preparing City Logistics Plans for Indian Cities’ to help cities tailor their logistics planning to meet its unique vision, objectives, and local characteristics.
In his address, the Minister said that the National Master Plan is a faster, better, efficient, more cost effective and high quality tool for India to foray into world class infrastructure.
He said that speed and strength today are the defining feature of India as the country is recognised worldwide for modern high quality infrastructure delivered on time, planned for future and implemented with efficiency.
He said that the tool will be utilised by the world for their infrastructure planning in the future.
The Minister emphasised that adoption of geospatial and other cutting-edge technologies in the PM GatiShakti Master Plan marks a significant stride towards revolutionising connectivity landscape. Every data in PM GatiShakti is validated, double-checked and a mechanism has been introduced for periodic updation of the data, he said.
