PM GatiShakti National Master Plan marks five years with 400+ projects worth Rs 20.23 lakh crore evaluated and ITLA cleared by Union Cabinet

Key facts

• The PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (PMGS NMP), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 13, 2021, completed five years, with the Network Planning Group (NPG) having evaluated over 400 infrastructure projects worth approximately Rs 20.23 lakh crore based on PM GatiShakti principles.
• The NPG, constituted under the PM GatiShakti initiative, evaluates all logistics and connectivity infrastructure projects entailing investments of over Rs 500 crore, and the Union Cabinet approved the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority (ITLA) to strengthen research, planning, appraisal, monitoring and impact assessment in transport and logistics.
• The PM GatiShakti digital platform, developed indigenously by BISAG-N under Atmanirbhar Bharat, integrates more than 1,800 data layers covering 58 central ministries/departments and all 36 states and Union Territories, with data on land records, ports, forests, schools, railway stations, water bodies, telecom towers and highways.
• The platform has facilitated development and integration of more than 65 software modules/tools and over 100 mobile and web applications for data-driven infrastructure planning.
• The PM GatiShakti Public platform, through the Unified Geospatial Interface (UGI), was launched in September 2025, extending selected data-analytics capabilities to private entities and the general public.
• Phase-wise progress: in 2022-23, eight key infrastructure ministries were onboarded and 71 projects evaluated; in 2023-24, social-sector integration was undertaken with 1,463 data layers and all 36 States/UTs onboarded; in 2024-25, economic-sector integration and the District Master Plan were launched with 121 projects evaluated; in 2025-26, 352 projects were evaluated by February 2026, and in 2026 a total of 421 projects worth Rs 20.23 lakh crore had been evaluated.