The government on Monday opened the PM GatiShakti platform to the private sector with the launch of PM GatiShakti Public, which will help them plan infrastructure activities better and reduce time and costs.
“This query-based web platform provides regulated access to selected non-sensitive datasets from the PM GatiShakti NMP for infrastructure planning and investment decisions,” a statement from the commerce and industry ministry said.
The PM GatiShakti Public allows users to access 230 approved datasets covering physical and social infrastructure assets.
The announcement of private sector access to the PM GatiShakti platform was made by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in her budget speech this year. It also addresses a long-standing demand from industry, which has sought access to the platform’s data.
This will enable them to conduct site suitability analyses, connectivity mapping, alignment planning, compliance checks, and generate analytical reports based on pre-defined templates and user-defined criteria. Users can also visualise multi-layered geospatial data, promoting better project design, inter-agency coordination, and private sector participation.
On completing four years of PM GatiShakti, the Logistics Division of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) also launched PM GatiShakti – Offshore.
PM GatiShakti – Offshore has been developed as a digital platform for integrated planning and management of offshore development. The platform provides a unified geospatial interface consolidating critical datasets from multiple government ministries and departments to enable data-driven decision-making for projects such as offshore wind farms, marine resource exploration, and coastal infrastructure development.
“It aims to strengthen India’s Blue Economy and support the nation’s transition toward green energy and sustainable coastal growth,” commerce and industry minister Piyush Goyal said.
It integrates datasets from key ministries and departments, including the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas, Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways, Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Mines, Ministry of Power, and Department of Telecommunications.
The portal hosts an extensive repository of geospatial layers categorised under domains such as Energy and Resources, Environment and Ecology, Infrastructure and Logistics, and Oceanic and Hazard Data.