PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan

India’s ministries used to plan roads, railways, and ports separately. That caused constant duplication and delay. PM Gati Shakti was built to fix exactly that problem.

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Seven Engines

Railways, Roads, Ports

Waterways, Airports

Mass Transport, Logistics Infra

Platform Scale

Launched 13 October 2021, by BISAG-N

44 Ministries, 36 States/UTs, 1,614 data layers

Impact So Far

352 projects evaluated, worth ₹16.10 lakh crore

Logistics cost: 7.97% of GDP in FY24, down from 8.84%

One map, not seven separate ones

The Network Planning Group catches conflicting or duplicate projects before sanction — turning a shared GIS map into a real coordination mechanism, not just a data dashboard.

📑 Contents

1Must Know
2Good to Know
3Test Yourself
4Great to Know
5Current Affairs

Must Know

PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan was launched on 13 October 2021 by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Its goal is integrated, multimodal connectivity for people, goods, and services. It also aims to cut logistics costs.
The plan runs on seven engines: Railways, Roads, Ports, Waterways, Airports, Mass Transport, and Logistics Infrastructure.
It works through a shared GIS-based digital platform, built by BISAG-N, that all ministries and states use together.
Every ministry plans its projects on this one shared map. This stops departments from digging up the same road twice.

Good to Know

The platform has onboarded 44 Central Ministries and 36 States and Union Territories. Over 1,614 data layers are integrated into it.
A Network Planning Group (NPG) evaluates major infrastructure projects for integrated planning and last-mile connectivity, before they get sanctioned.
Gati Shakti doesn’t replace existing schemes. It coordinates them, including Bharatmala for roads, Sagarmala for ports, and UDAN for regional air links.
States use the same platform for their own planning. Examples include hospital-site selection and drip-irrigation mapping using satellite data.

Test Yourself

Great to Know

Gati Shakti marks a shift in how India plans infrastructure. It moves from separate departmental budgets toward one shared, visible national map.
The Network Planning Group’s evaluation step matters most. It catches conflicting or duplicate projects before money gets spent, not after.
Making the platform useful for states, not just the centre, is what turns a planning tool into a real coordination mechanism.

Current Affairs

On 28 July 2026, MoSPI released its PAIMANA Flash Report for June 2026. It now tracks 1,847 Central Sector infrastructure projects, worth ₹40.54 lakh crore. (Source: PIB)
Cumulative expenditure on these projects reached ₹21.97 lakh crore. That’s about 54% of their total revised cost. (Source: PIB)
Transport & Logistics is the dominant sector. It has both the most projects (1,341) and the highest revised cost, at ₹22.32 lakh crore. (Source: PIB)
By ministry, Road Transport & Highways leads with 1,022 projects. Railways follows, with 255 projects worth ₹8.69 lakh crore. (Source: PIB)
Of the total, 769 are “Mega” projects, each costing ₹1,000 crore or more. Together, they’re worth ₹30.51 lakh crore. (Source: PIB)
June 2026’s single largest completion was the ₹79,459 crore Rajasthan Refinery Project, under the Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas. (Source: PIB)
20 July 2026: In a Rajya Sabha reply, MoSPI detailed how it tracks project delays through PAIMANA. It monitors all ongoing Central Sector infrastructure projects costing ₹150 crore or more. (Source: PIB)
Line ministries update PAIMANA through APIs and manual data entry. Project-wise details are published in MoSPI’s own Flash Report, on the PAIMANA portal. (Source: PIB)
The main reasons for project delays are land acquisition issues, forest and environmental clearances, law and order problems, utility shifting, and delays in civil work. (Source: PIB)
On 16 July 2026, MoSPI released its quarterly update to the PAIMANA Performance Monitoring Dashboard, tracking India’s infrastructure sectors. Launched 16 April 2026, it now covers 165 performance indicators, up 54 from its last update. (Source: PIB)
PAIMANA is a MoSPI dashboard, distinct from Gati Shakti’s own GIS platform, but tracks the same broad infrastructure push. It scores sectors across five dimensions: access, quality, fiscal cost and revenue, utilisation, and affordability. (Source: PIB)
The six tracked sub-sectors and their indicator counts are: Ports, Shipping and Waterways (62), Railways (37), Civil Aviation (31), Power (14), Telecommunications (13), and Roads (8). (Source: PIB)
Standout figures from the update: 9,360 km of national highways built in FY 2025-26, and electronic toll collections rising 40.3% year-on-year, to 88.1 crore transactions. (Source: PIB)
As of February 2026, the Network Planning Group has evaluated 352 infrastructure projects worth ₹16.10 lakh crore. 201 of these projects have been sanctioned, and 167 are under implementation. This was disclosed in a written Lok Sabha reply by the Minister of State for Commerce and Industry. (Source: The Tribune)
The Economic Survey 2026 reports that India’s logistics costs fell to 7.97% of GDP in FY24, down from 8.84% in FY23. It credits PM Gati Shakti, alongside Dedicated Freight Corridors, Bharatmala, and Sagarmala, for the improvement. (Source: Swarajya, citing Economic Survey 2026)