NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday launched the ambitious Rs 100 lakh crore Gati Shakti Master Plan to provide multi-modal connectivity to more than 1,200 industrial clusters, including two defence corridors across the country.
“We are laying a foundation for the next 25 years. This national master plan will give ‘gatishakti’ to development plans of the 21st century and will help in the timely completion of these plans,” the Prime Minister said after launching the plan.

What is Gati Shakti?
The Prime Minister had announced ‘PM Gati Shakti – National Master Plan’ in his Independence Day speech on August 15 this year.
The plan will break inter-ministerial silos and integrate the planning and designing of projects with a common and holistic vision, enhance India’s global competitiveness through next-generation infrastructure and seamless multi-modal connectivity, ensure seamless movement of goods and people and enhance the ease of living as well as the ease of doing business, a top government official said.
Under Gati Shakti, a digital platform has been created which will bring 16 ministries including rail and roadways together for integrated planning and coordinated implementation of infrastructure connectivity projects.
The platform will provide high resolution satellite images, infrastructure, utilities, administrative boundaries, land and logistics.
While the project will be spearheaded by the logistics division in the commerce ministry, there will be an empowered group of secretaries headed by Cabinet secretary to see the implementation of this major initiative.
Aim of the national plan
The “PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan for Multi-Modal Infrastructure Connectivity to Economic Zones” with tag line ‘Gati se Shakti’ will include projects under existing flagship schemes of different ministries such as Bharatmala, Sagarmala, Udaan, expansion of railway network, inland waterways and Bharat Net.
Officials said that seamless multi-modal connectivity will ensure the seamless movement of goods and people and enhance the ease of living as well as the ease of doing business.
Gati Shakti will also help in fulfiling the ambitious targets set by the government for the period of 2024-25, including expanding the the length of the national highway network to 2 lakh route km, creation of over 200 airports, heliports and water aerodromes and doubling the gas pipeline network to 35,000 km.
Here’s what govt aims aims to achieve by 2024-25 under Gati Shakti …
* 11 industrial corridors and two new defence corridors in Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh
* 4G connectivity in all villages
* Increasing renewable energy capacity to 225 GW from 87.7 GW
* Expanding the national highway network to 2 lakh km
* Increasing length of transmission network to 4,54,200 circuit km
* Creation of 220 new airports, heliports and water aerodromes
* Increasing cargo handling capacity of railways to 1,600 million tons from 1210 million tons
* Adding 17,000 km to gas pipeline network
* 202 fishing clusters/harbours/landing centres
and more
New mantra of progress
Talking about Gati Shakti, PM Modi said it offers a holistic vision that has adopted an unprecedented approach to deliver unprecedented work.
“We want to build & deliver an integrated approach that has a plug & play approach when it comes to world-class infrastructure,” he said.
He said that if India continues to puruse its dream of building world-class infrastructure, it will have the potential to soon become the business capital of the world.
The Prime Minister also gave a new mantra for the 21st century: “Will for progress, work for progress, wealth for progress, plan for progress and preference for progress.”
“Our government has not only developed a work-culture of completing the projects within the stipulated time frame but also efforts are being made to complete the projects before time,” he said.