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Source: The post is based on the article “India showcases PM Gatishakti National Master Plan at Asian Development Bank’s 2023 Regional Cooperation and Integration Conference ” published in PIB on 7th September 2023
What is the News?
India showcased PM Gatishakti National Master Plan at the ‘2023 Regional Cooperation and Integration Conference: Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration through Economic Corridor Development (ECD)’.
The conference was organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB) at Tbilisi, Georgia.
What is PM Gati Shakti?
Launched in: October 2021
Aims: 1) Establish synergies among different ministries during the planning stage itself 2) Align timelines of various projects through efficient planning 3) Promote standardization of the designs for efficient project approval and 4) Enable standardized procedures by all the agencies to reduce project delays.
What is PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan?
Source: PIB
PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan was developed by Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics(BISAG).
It is a technology backed infrastructure development platform with GIS based data layers of infrastructure, geographic features and demography, and various decision support systems.
The platform enables integrated planning, synchronized implementation, and project monitoring.
The platform aims at enhancing industrial productivity and helping the country achieve its green logistics and clean energy goals by enormously boosting the multi-modal connectivity across highways, railways, ports, airports, logistics infrastructure, mass urban transportation and inland waterways.
The NMP also has customized decision making and planning tools for functionalities of adding project/data; measure proximity; identification of Go/No Go Area; obtaining NOC from different departments, etc.
