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News: The Union Cabinet approved ITLA as a Special Purpose Vehicle to improve coordination and multimodal integration in transport and logistics.
About Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA)
- The Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA) is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) established for the transportation and logistics sectors.
- Aim: It aims to address fragmented planning and implementation across transport-related ministries and agencies through greater coordination and multimodal integration.
- Nodal Agency: It will be housed in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT).
- Key Role and Responsibilities
- It will function as the apex body for integrated transport and logistics planning, research, project appraisal, monitoring, policy support and data analytics.
- It will prepare a National Transport Master Plan with a planning horizon of 10 years or more, covering major transport and logistics sectors.
- It will evaluate short-term sectoral and annual plans of transport ministries to ensure their alignment with the National Transport Master Plan.
- It will undertake technical appraisal of Government of India infrastructure projects costing ₹500 crore or more.
- It will also monitor their implementation, support issue resolution and conduct post-implementation impact assessment.
- It will create a unified transport data repository using datasets such as GSTN e-way bills, FASTag, Vahan, GPS-based systems and urban traffic management systems for planning and monitoring.
