Pariksha SaathiCabinet Approves Setting Up of Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA)
A new Special Purpose Vehicle, the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority (ITLA), received the Union Cabinet's approval on 6 October 2026 at a meeting chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. ITLA is meant to serve as the apex body for research, planning, project appraisal, monitoring and impact assessment across transport and logistics, tackling the fragmented planning that has long existed among the many ministries responsible for road, rail, ports and shipping, aviation, inland waterways and urban transport. Its tasks include preparing a National Transport Master Plan with a horizon of ten years or more, carrying out technical appraisal and monitoring of central infrastructure projects costing Rs 500 crore or more (financial appraisal stays with the existing mechanisms), and building a National Transport Data Repository from sources such as FASTag, Vahan and GSTN e-way bills.
Drafted with AI assistance from the official PIB release linked above and checked against it by a second AI pass. Not line-edited by a human.
Learning context
ITLA's mandate includes advising on the review and updating of the National Logistics Policy (NLP), which Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi, on 17 September 2022. The NLP's targets are to bring India's logistics cost down to a level comparable with global benchmarks by 2030, to place India among the top 25 countries in the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index by 2030, and to build a data-driven decision-support system for logistics. It works alongside the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan for multi-modal connectivity, launched in 2021.
Reference: PMO's report on the launch of the National Logistics Policy
Check yourself: is ITLA's ten-year National Transport Master Plan the same thing as the National Logistics Policy?
No. The NLP (2022) is the policy framework, with 2030 targets on logistics cost and LPI ranking; the National Transport Master Plan is a planning document that ITLA will prepare for all transport modes. ITLA will also advise on reviewing and updating the NLP.
Revision task: list ITLA's functions from this item and mark which one is genuinely new (for example, technical appraisal of central projects of Rs 500 crore or more) and which links back to existing frameworks such as the NLP.
Test yourself
The Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority (ITLA), approved by the Cabinet on 6 October 2026, is being set up as what kind of body?
Show the answer
Answer: A Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)
ITLA is a Special Purpose Vehicle meant as the apex body for research, planning, appraisal and monitoring across transport and logistics; it will prepare a National Transport Master Plan and build a National Transport Data Repository from sources such as FASTag, Vahan and GSTN e-way bills.
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