Lok Sabha Question No. 615 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2021-12-01
Subject: Gati Shakti Yojana
Ministry: PLANNING
Asked by: Ramesh Bidhuri, Thalikkottai Rajuthevar Baalu

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF PLANNING

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.615 TO BE ANSWERED ON 01.12.2021

## GATI SHAKTI YOJANA

## 615. SHRI RAMESH  BIDHURI:

SHRI T.R.  BAALU:

Will  the  Minister  of  PLANNING be pleased to state:

- (a) the  reasons  for introducing  Gati  Shakti  Yojana  by the Government;
- (b) the details regarding works/projects to be  covered  under  this  scheme  and  total  number  of Ministries/Departments  to be connected  under it;
- (c) whether  the  implementation  of  Gati  Shakti  Scheme  has  commenced  and  if  so,  the  scheduled completion  date; and
- (d) the details of  funding  of  the  scheme  and  allocation  in  the  current  year's  Union  budget  along with  the  details  of external  financial  assistance,  if  any,  for the  project? IT Park in  Darbhanga

## ANSWER

MINISTER  OF STATE (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE)  OF THE MINISTRY OF STATISTICS  & PROGRAMME IMPLEMENTATION,  MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT  CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF PLANNING AND MINISTER  OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY  OF CORPORATE AFFAIRS

## (RAO INDERJIT SINGH)

- (a) Government  felt  necessary  to  develop  a  Comprehensive  Plan  to  integrate  all  the  existing  and proposed  development  initiatives  by  way  of  a  PM  Gati  Shakti  National  Master  Plan  (NMP) wherein  various  economic  zones  will  be  the  fulcrum  of  economic  development  interconnected with  a network of multimodal  connectivity  infrastructure  up to the  last  mile.
- (b) PM  Gati  Shakti  Yojana  is  an  integrated  plan  depicting  the  economic  zones  and  the  multimodal connectivity infrastructure with an  objective  to  holistically  integrate  the  interventions  of  various Ministries/Departments  to  address  missing  gaps  to  ensure  seamless  movement  of  people,  goods &  services (Details of projects are at Annexure  1 ).    Total  19  Ministries/Departments  are

connected; (i) Ministry of Railways; (ii ) Ministry of Road, Transport &  Highways; (ii i ) Ministry of Ports, Shipping and  Waterways;  (iv)  Ministry  of  Civil  Aviation; (v) Ministry of Petroleum &  Natural Gas; (vi) Ministry  of  Power;  (vii)  Department  of  Telecommunications; (viii) Ministry of Coal; (ix) Ministry of Mines; (x) Department of Chemicals &  PetroChemicals; (xi) Department of Fertilizers; (xii) Ministry of Steel; (xiii) Department of Expenditure;  (xiv)  Department  of  Promotion  of  Industry  and  Internal  Trade;  (xv)  Department  of Food and Public Distribution; (xvi) Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers' Welfare; (xvii) Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry  &  Dairying; (xviii) Ministry of Tourism;  and  (xix) Logistics  Division.

- (c) Yes,  Sir,  Implementation  of  the  PM  Gati  Shakti  NMP  has  commenced.  There  cannot  be  a scheduled  completion  date, as this  is  a continuous  exercise.
- (d) The concerned li ne Ministries/Departments will seek  funding  of their respective infrastructure projects serving the economic zones as per procedures laid under their respective schemes/programmes.

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## Annexure-1

## Details of infrastructure  projects as part of PM Gati Shakti NMP for providing  Multi-Modal Connectivity  to various Economic  Zones by 2024-25

| S.NO                                      | Target                                             | Details of infrastructure projects as part of PM Gati Shakti NMP for providing Multi- Modal Connectivity to various Economic Zones by 2024-25                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              |
|-------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Ministry of Road Transport and Highways   | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways            | Ministry of Road Transport and Highways                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| 1                                         | Length of NHnetwork - 2 lakh route kms             |  Completion of 4/6-lane NH covering length of 5,590 km along coastal areas  All State Capitals in North Eastern Region to be connected with either 4-lane NHor two alternate alignments of 2-lane configurations each                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| Ministry of Railways                      | Ministry of Railways                               | Ministry of Railways                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       |
| 2                                         | Cargo to be handled - 1,600 million tons           |  Completion of critical projects to decongest 51% of Railway network i.e., 34,642 route kms on high density routes carrying 96% total traffic by way of additional rail lines  Implementation of 2 Dedicated Freight Corridors (Western & Eastern) along IRs high-density network for faster movement of freight trains  Preparation of DPRs for around 4000 km of East-West, North-South & East coast Corridors of Future Dedicated Freight Corridors to be executed on PPP mode to be taken up on the outcome of DPRs |
| Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways | Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways          | Ministry of Ports, Shipping and Waterways                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  |
| 3                                         | Cargo traffic at Ports - 1,759 MMPTA               |  Cargo movement on all National Waterways (NW) to be 95 million MT  Increasing cargo movement from 9 to 29 million MT on Ganga (NW1)  Round the year movement of vessels between Varanasi (NW1) &Sadiya (NW2) and Badarpur &Karimganj (NW16) through Indo Bangladesh Protocol                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
| Ministry of Civil Aviation                | Ministry of Civil Aviation                         | Ministry of Civil Aviation                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 4                                         | No. of Airports/ Heliports/ Water Aerodromes - 220 |  Increase aviation footprint through Regional Connectivity Scheme - UDAN  Additional 109 airports including existing 51 airstrips/ 18GreenfieldAirports/12                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |

## Ministry of Petroleum  and Natural gas

- 5 Length  of  pipeline  - 34,500 kms

## Ministry of Power

- 6 Length  of  Transmission Network -4,54,200 circuit  km

## Department  of Telecommunication

- 7 Length  of  OFC Network -

35,00,000 km (Till  2024)

## Ministry of Food Processing industries

- 8 No. of Mega Food Parks &Agro Processing  Centres  - 197

## Department  of Defence production

- 10 02 Defence  Corridors

## Water Aerodromes  / 28 Heliports.

-  Additional  17,000  Km  long  trunk  pipeline is expected to be completed connecting major demand and supply centers for industries
-  Target  to connect  all  the  States with  the trunk  Natural  Gas Pipeline  Network by 2027
-  Total transformation capacity to be 12,03,000 MVA ( Only incremental addition in Inter-State Transmission System  (ISTS)  from  2020  -  24  has  been factored )
-  Transmission  network  performance parameters  to match  the best global standards
-  All Gram Panchayats (2,50,000) in the country to be connected with Optical Fiber Cable delivering high speed broadband by 2022
-  All  villages  in  the  country  to  be  connected with  Optical  Fiber Cable  by May, 2023
-  All  villages  will  be connected  with  4G mobile  connectivity  by 2022
-  Value chain development of agri-food produce  on  cluster  basis,  one  district  one product approach
-  Food processing  and preservation  capacity to be increased  from  222 lakh  MT to 847 lakh  MT

## Ministry of Fisheries, Animal  Husbandry  and Dairying

- 9 No. of Fishing  clusters/  Fishing Harbours  & Major Fishing Landing  Centres  - 202
-  Envisaged to achieve additional fi sh production of 70 lakh metric tons & doubling  of fisheries  exports
-  Development  of Integrated  Aqua Parks as hubs of multifarious  fisheries  activities
-  Achieve a turnover of ₹1,70,000 crore including export of ₹35,000 crores in aerospace  and  defence  goods  &  services by 2025
-  Target  investment  of  over  ₹10,000  crore

|                                                         |                                                         | each for the 2 corridors                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           |
|---------------------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Ministry of Electronics and information Technology      | Ministry of Electronics and information Technology      | Ministry of Electronics and information Technology                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 |
| 11                                                      | No. of Electronics Manufacturing Clusters (EMCs) - 38   | • Production in these Electronics Manufacturing Clusters is expected to be ₹ 15 lakh crore by 2024-25 Development of 23 new clusters with plug & play & CFC facilities                                                                                                                                             |
| Department of Pharmaceuticals                           | Department of Pharmaceuticals                           | Department of Pharmaceuticals                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      |
| 12                                                      | No. of Pharma &Medical device clusters - 109            | • Development of 10 Pharma clusters by financing common facilities worth Rs 20 crore each Establishment of 03 Bulk Drug Parks & 04 Medical Device parks expected to reduce dependence of the country on imports of APIs & medical devices                                                                          |
| Ministry of Textiles                                    | Ministry of Textiles                                    | Ministry of Textiles                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               |
| 13                                                      | No. of Textile Clusters/ Mega Textile Parks - 90        |  Development of 10 Mega Integrated Textile Regions and Park with plug-and- play facilities, common facilities & integrated value chain to boost scale and efficiency with 02 parks partly dedicated to machinery manufacturing                                                                                    |
| Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade | Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade | Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            |
| 14                                                      | Developed Area - 25,000 acres                           |  Creation of greenfield smart industrial cities with sustainable, 'plug n play', ICT enabled utilities to facilitate manufacturing investments into the country & positioning India as a strong player in Global value chain o Provide quality, reliable, sustainable and resilient infrastructure for industries |