Commerce and Industry minister Piyush Goyal on Tuesday launched the district version of PM GatiShakti National Master Plan for 27 aspirational districts which over the next 18 months will be expanded to cover 750 districts across the country.
On the occasion of completion of three years of PM GatiShakti, the minister also launched the ‘Guidelines for Preparing City Logistics Plans for Indian Cities’ to help cities tailor their logistics planning to meet its unique vision, objectives and local characteristics.
In his address, Goyal said that the master plan is a faster, better, efficient, more cost effective and high quality tool for India to foray into world class infrastructure and it will be utilised by the world for their infrastructure planning in the future.
“This is going to be the technology that the world will use for their infra planning in the years to come,” he said.
The minister emphasised that adoption of geospatial and other cutting-edge technologies in the PM GatiShakti Master Plan marks a significant stride towards revolutionising connectivity landscape.
