Lok Sabha Question No. 14 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2022-12-07
Subject: Multimodal Connectivity Infrastructure
Ministry: COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY
Asked by: Manoj Kishorbhai Kotak

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY DEPARTMENT FOR PROMOTION OF INDUSTRY AND INTERNAL TRADE

## LOK SABHA

## UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 14. TO BE ANSWERED ON WEDNESDAY, THE 07 th  DECEMBER, 2022.

## MULTIMODAL CONNECTIVITY INFRASTRUCTURE

## 14. SHRI MANOJ KOTAK:

Will the Minister of COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY be pleased to state:

## वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्री

- (a) whether it is a fact that the Government has launched PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan in 2021 for the development of multimodal connectivity infrastructure to various Economic Zones;
- (b) if  so, the details thereof including the steps taken, under the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan;
- (c) the details and the number of Ministries/ Departments by the Government that are part of PM Gati Shakti Scheme;
- (d) the  details  and  the  number  of  common  umbrella  platforms  that  have  been created by the Government with all infrastructure projects; and
- (e) the details of the steps taken by the Government to improve inter-departmental efficiency during execution of the project?

## ANSWER

## वाणिज्य एवं उद्योग मंत्रालय में राज्य मंत्री ( श्री सोम प्रकाश ) THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (SHRI SOM PARKASH)

(a) to (e) : Yes, sir. Government has launched PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP) in October, 2021 for the development of multimodal connectivity infrastructure to various Economic Zones. NMP is a GIS based platform with portals of various Ministries/Departments of Government to provide data-based decision-making and to facilitate development of multi-modal transport  system  by  Ministry/Departments  across  the  country.    To ensure  better  decision  making  and  coordination  with  various  Central Ministries/Departments, Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) and Network  Planning  Group  (NPG)have  been  created  as  institutional arrangement. About 2000 data layers of various Central Ministries/Departments/State Governments  have so far been uploaded on the NMP. Besides, NITI Aayog, there are 24 Central Ministries/Departments as part of PM Gati Shakti, represented in EGoS through their Secretaries, viz, 1.   Ministry of Railways;  2. Ministry of Road,  Transport  &  Highways;    3.  Ministry  of  Ports,  Shipping  and Waterways;   4.  Ministry  of  Civil  Aviation;    5.  Ministry  of  Petroleum  & Natural Gas; 6. Ministry of Power; 7. Department of Telecommunications;   8.  Ministry  of  Coal;    9.  Ministry  of  Mines;    10. Department  of  Chemicals  &  Petro-Chemicals;    11.  Department  of Fertilizers; 12. Ministry of Steel; 13. Department of Economic Affairs;   14.  Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade; 15.   Department  of  Food  and  Public  Distribution;  16.     Ministry  of Agriculture  &  Farmers'  Welfare;  17.  Ministry  of  Fisheries,  Animal Husbandry  and  Dairying;  18.  Ministry  of  Tourism;    19.Department  of Commerce; 20. Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs;  21.     Department of Revenue;  22.  Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology. 23. Ministry of New and Renewable Energy; 24. Ministry  of  Environment,  Forest  and  Climate  Change.    The  PM GatiShakti NMP  portal  is the common  umbrella  platform  for all infrastructure projects and for all other portals relating to infrastructure projects like IILB(India Industrial Land Bank),  PMG(Project Monitoring Group).

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