Goyal reviews progress of PM GatiShakti
NEW DELHI: Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asked the Niti Aayog to prepare a report mapping all the industrial activities such as corridors, logistics parks and pharma hubs so that they can be incorporated under the PM Gati Shakti initiative of the government. She also suggested to the shipping ministry to look at all the sea ports in the country and their linkages with industrial corridors.
These suggestions were part of seven action points elaborated by the minister during the first meeting of the Apex Monitoring Authority for the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme.
"I would like the NITI Aayog to map all this (industrial corridors, freight corridors, defence corridors, manufacturing zones, textile parks, logistics parks, medical and pharma hubs). Map it all and tell us where you see a possibility for bringing them under the PM Gati Shakti," she said.
"I find many of them still
NEW DELHI: Union Minister for Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal reviewed the progress of the implementation of the PM GatiShakti national master plan that aims at giving a push to the country's multimodal infrastructure network. The minister reviewed the project on Wednesday.
PM GatiShakti is beginning to fast-track a number of infrastructure projects across the country with some states beginning to use it for better implementation of social sector lying loose and unconnected. Mapping it up will probably give a better idea of how they can all come into this scheme of things," she added.
The minister asked the Aayog to prepare the report by October-end.
The PM Gati Shakti is a digital platform which aims at promoting integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects. Niti Aayog, she said, should undertake a quick study because a lot of activities are happening and all of them have to come under the umbrella of PM Gati Shakti programme. projects.
Goyal chaired the review meeting which deliberated the progress achieved so far and saw the participation of various senior officials from different ministries, including railways, roads, ports and shipping, coal, steel, fertilizers and rural development.
On the occasion, Goyal said that under PM GatiShakti's transformative approach, the government is committed to resolve user issues by overcoming various departmental silos.
Present on the occasion, DPIIT Secretary Anurag Jain
The finance minister further suggested to her commerce counterpart Piyush Goyal to undertake a review of three industrial corridors of south India -- Chennai Bengaluru Industrial Corridor, Bengaluru Mumbai Industrial Corridor, and Vizag Chennai Industrial Corridor and their nodes.
"For some some reasons...the three corridors coming from the south have not been dealt with an elaborate fashion," Sitharaman added.
She also sought a report on the Uttarakhand stretch of the Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor. The minister sugsaid that along with a functioning Empowered Group of Secretaries in 32 states/UTs, 29 among them have also been able to formulate their network planning group and technical support unit.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on October 13 last year, launched the national master plan for multi-modal connectivity to develop infrastructure to reduce logistic costs and boost the economy.
“With over 900 data layers updated by central ministries and 316 essential layers by states/UTs, the meeting gested holding the next meeting of the authority by mid-November to review the progress.
The Government of India is developing various industrial corridor projects as part of the National Industrial Corridor Programme which is aimed at developing greenfield industrial smart cities which can compete with the best manufacturing and investment destinations in the world. The objectives include expanding industrial output and increasing employment opportunities.
The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC), earlier the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), undertakes project development activities and acts as an intermediary for development and establishment of smart and self-sustainable industrial nodes. For the implementation of the projects, states identify and contribute land for development of the identified nodes. To attract investment in the global value chain, provision of plug-and-play facilities is a pre-requisite. took note of various ministries/ departments using the same to share their proposed projects after having been mapped and aligned digitally,” it added.
Special secretary in the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Amrit Lal Meena said that with the portals for central and state government ministries now fully functional, all essential data layers have been uploaded to enable infrastructure ministries extensively utilize the National Master Plan for all pending and future projects.