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Reviewing the status of the National Master Plan in the meeting, Commerce and Industry Minister, Piyush Goyal has said that the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan and Institutional Framework are necessary for laying the foundation of India’s multimodal infrastructure network. Goyal further said that under the PM GatiShakti’s transformative approach, the government is committed to resolve user issues by overcoming various departmental silos.

The meeting discussed plans for faster integration of data into the portal. With over 900 data layers updated by Central Ministries and 316 essential layers by States/UTs, the meeting took note of various Ministries/Departments using the same to share their proposed projects after having been mapped and aligned digitally.

Meanwhile, the PM GatiShakti is already beginning to fast-track a number of infrastructure projects across the country with some states beginning to use it for better implementation of social sector projects. The Prime Minister launched PM GatiShakti-National Master Plan (NMP) for infrastructure development in October, 2021 with the objective to bring different Ministries/ Utilities & infrastructure planning under a single unified vision, across all sectors such as  Highways, Railways, Aviation, Gas, Power transmission, Renewable Energy etc.