India's PM GatiShakti NMP in full swing in 2022: Commerce Ministry

Individual portals for 22 infrastructure and user economic ministries and all 36 states/UTs with necessary data layers, customised tools, and functionalities were developed, according to the MoCI.

Altogether thirty-eight meetings of the Network Planning Group (NPG) were held during the year, wherein 57 projects were examined. In addition, user ministries shared 197 critical infrastructure gaps pertaining to road, rail, and port connectivity. These were examined by the NPG.

Online course on PM GatiShakti was hosted on Integrated Government Online Training (iGoT) platform to build capacities within the government. Resolution of issues for time bound project implementation gained momentum through the Project Monitoring Group (PMG) mechanism.

Twenty-eight states submitted their annual action plans. Plans of all states worth ₹5,023 crore were recommended to department of expenditure (DoE).

For efficient operation of the PM GatiShakti NMP, training and capacity building of over 1,000 State level officers in physical mode at Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics (BISAG-N) was completed, apart from 6 zonal conferences.

Furthermore, 15 states developed logistics policy. States of Karnataka and Punjab notified their logistics policy in the month of November, the MoCI said in its year-end review.

A new digital platform—ease of logistics services or E-Logs—was also started under the National Logistics Policy.

The integration of Unified Logistics Interface Platform (ULIP), with 32 systems of 7 different ministries through 100+plus application programming interfaces (APIs), covering 1600-plus fields was completed successfully. ULIP was designed and developed by NICDC under the guidance of Niti Aayog.

“Through this portal, industry associations can directly take up any such matters which are causing problems in their operations and performance with the government agencies. A complete system has also been put in place for the speedy resolution of such cases,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi had said during the launch of National Logistics Policy in September 2022.

National Workshop on PM GatiShakti was also organised on October 13, 2022, during which the Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) 2022 report was released by the union minister of commerce and industry.

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