{"id":143037,"date":"2021-10-25T20:16:18","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=143037"},"modified":"2021-10-25T20:16:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T14:46:18","slug":"what-pm-gati-shakti-plan-means-for-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-pm-gati-shakti-plan-means-for-the-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"What PM Gati Shakti plan means for the nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis: <\/strong>The current state of infrastructure and how PM-Gati shakti will help in it.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>Introduction<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>This fractionated style of policy-making and execution held back the economic development of India. The Prime Minister\u2019s Gati Shakti plan is a step in changing the status of the progress of the nation by national Master Plan for Multi-modal Connectivity.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the current state of infrastructure and how Gati-shakti would address it?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Logistics<\/strong>&#8211; The cost of Indian logistics remains high at 13-14% of GDP compared to developed nations where they are 8-10 per cent. The plan will help India to cut down its logistics cost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Freight transport<\/strong>&#8211; India\u2019s modal mix is heavily tilted towards roads, with 60-65% of transport happening via road compared to 25-30% in developed countries, prompting higher costs.<\/p>\n<p>PM Gati Shakti Master plan, we will increase India\u2019s highway network to 2 lakh km and provision utility corridors for laying adjoining power and optical fibre cables, which will be a life-saver in times of natural disasters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rail freight<\/strong> business depends excessively on coal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Domestic waterways<\/strong> face numerous challenges due to high first- and last-mile costs, unavailability of return load in most cases, high voyage costs for specialised vessels and high repositioning costs of domestic containers, among others.<\/p>\n<p>The PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan will herald a new era of infrastructure development and multi-modal logistics.<\/p>\n<p>Master plan will further augment<strong> urban infrastructure<\/strong> development by streamlining planning and approvals, and integrating civic amenities.<\/p>\n<p>It is expected to increase the share of <strong>natural gas<\/strong> in the country\u2019s energy mix to 15 per cent from the current 7 per cent.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 100%;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"width: 100%;\"><strong>Must Read<\/strong>:<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-gati-shakti-national-infrastructure-master-plan\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> PM Gati Shakti &#8211; National Infrastructure Master Plan &#8211; Explained, pointwise<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> This post is based on the article \u201c<strong>What PM Gati Shakti plan means for the nation<\/strong>\u201d published in <strong>The Indian Express <\/strong>on <strong>25<sup>th<\/sup> Oct 2021<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: The current state of infrastructure and how PM-Gati shakti will help in it. Introduction This fractionated style of policy-making and execution held back the economic development of India. The Prime Minister\u2019s Gati Shakti plan is a step in changing the status of the progress of the nation by national Master Plan for Multi-modal Connectivity.&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/what-pm-gati-shakti-plan-means-for-the-nation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What PM Gati Shakti plan means for the nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[216],"class_list":["post-143037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-3","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704915315},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}