4th Regional Workshop on PM GatiShakti National Master Plan to be held in Guwahati

The fourth regional workshop on PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) is being organized for the 8 North Eastern States on 24^th and 25^th March 2023 in Guwahati by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The two-day workshop will see participation of senior government officials from Central Ministries/Departments like Ministry of Road Transport & Highways, Ministry of Railways, Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways; Ministry of Power; Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, and NITI Aayog. The participating States include Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim & Tripura.

The inaugural day of the regional workshop will feature discussions with infrastructure, economic and social sector Ministries/Departments at the Centre and State levels on the adoption of PM GatiShakti with a holistic approach & demonstration of experience, best practices and vision of using the NMP/SMP platform. This will be followed by presentations on the Quality Improvement Plan, PM GatiShakti Area Approach, enhancing multimodality with  inland waterways, and the Unified Logistics interface Platform (ULIP)

Day 2 of the regional workshop will feature a presentation on the salient features of the National Logistics Policy, monitoring of State Logistics Policies, Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) survey, National Bamboo Mission, and a site visit.

To facilitate the wider adoption of the National Master Plan (NMP) platform, a series of 5 regional workshops are being organized across all the States/UTs. These workshops aim to bring more vigor and build synergy among the different stakeholders resulting in mutual learning among the States and Central Ministries/Departments

With States/UTs now taking progressive steps for planning and implementation of projects using PM GatiShakti NMP platform, these regional Workshops across different zones will ensure wider adoption of PM GatiShakti in project planning. These workshops will bring all stakeholders of the PM GatiShakti NMP together for extensive deliberations and result in an exchange of information between States and Central Ministries/Departments. 

Background

PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) is a transformative approach that enables integrated planning and synchronised implementation for multimodal and last mile connectivity across the country. It was launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi on 13^th October, 2021 with a vision to break Departmental silos in Government and institutionalize holistic planning for stakeholders across major infrastructure projects.

PM GatiShakti has broadly two components to achieve integration, synchronization, prioritization and optimization i.e., development of a GIS based technology platform called National Master Plan and an institutional mechanism to integrate efforts of various line ministries/departments for synchronized development of multi-modal infrastructure and economic zones.

The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan is an integrated platform developed with the support of Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Application and Geo-information (BISAG-N). With over 1300+ GIS layers such as land record, roads, railways, economics zones and industrial zone integrated, the platform is being used by all Central Ministries/Departments and State Governments resulting in faster project planning and implementation, thus reducing costs, increasing efficiencies, & raising public welfare.