PM Gati-Shakti Portal

Context:

The Government of India has opened the PM GatiShakti portal to the private sector, allowing industries, researchers, and developers to access non-sensitive infrastructure data for optimising last-mile delivery, planning logistics, and developing infrastructure-based digital applications. The initiative aims to promote data-driven, integrated planning and public-private collaboration in infrastructure development.

Key Highlights:

• Launch and Access:
  • Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal launched the PM GatiShakti Public Interface through the Unified Geospatial Interface (UGI).
  • The web-based platform offers regulated access to selected datasets from the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP).
• Purpose and Benefits:
  • Enables private players, consultants, researchers, and citizens to use geospatial analytics for:
    – Infrastructure planning and investment decisions
    – Site suitability analysis
    – Connectivity mapping
    – Compliance checks
    – Project feasibility and design
    – Enhances coordination between various agencies and reduces logistics costs.
• Data Coverage:
  • – Provides access to 230 approved datasets covering:
    – Physical infrastructure: Highways, railways, airports, ports, warehouses, multimodal logistics parks, and telecom towers.
    – Social infrastructure: Schools, healthcare facilities, water bodies, and forest areas.
    – Also includes track length details, district layers, freight corridors, and land records for better project planning.
• Applications for Private Sector:
  • Development of infrastructure-based apps and smart city solutions.
  • Optimisation of last-mile logistics and supply chain management.
  • Use in agriculture, healthcare, disaster management, and food distribution planning.
• Supporting Tools:
  • Launch of PM GatiShakti Compendium, highlighting best practices and successful use cases.
  • Launch of PMGS NMP Dashboard, a multi-sector reporting system to track project progress and derive insights.