Pariksha SaathiPM GatiShakti at Five: GIS-Based Master Plan Now Spans 58 Central Ministries and All 36 States/UTs
Ahead of the fifth anniversary of PM GatiShakti on 13 October, a PIB backgrounder on 12 October 2026 traced how the National Master Plan (NMP), launched on 13 October 2021, has grown from a map of infrastructure into a planning system used across government. The plan puts data from ministries, states and UTs onto a common GIS platform so that roads, railways, ports, waterways, airports, mass transport and logistics — its 'seven engines' — can be planned together. Today 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and UTs use it, and it holds over 23,493 data layers. Proposals are vetted through a three-tier set-up: an Empowered Group of Secretaries chaired by the Cabinet Secretary, a Network Planning Group (NPG) of infrastructure ministries, and a Technical Support Unit. By 11 August 2026, the NPG had examined 396 projects worth about ₹18.66 lakh crore. Since October 2025, private users can also query 230 approved non-sensitive datasets on the platform. Examples cited include the 699 km Pune–Bengaluru Expressway, whose alignment was changed to cut forest-land overlap by 19%, and a Ladakh–Haryana green energy corridor. Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya, set up in 2022, has trained over 2.4 lakh officers for the programme.
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
PM GatiShakti National Master Plan was first announced in the Prime Minister’s Independence Day speech on 15 August 2021, and formally launched almost two months later, on 13 October 2021, at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi. It runs on a GIS-based digital platform, developed by BISAG-N, meant to end departmental silos by giving ministries shared visibility of each other’s infrastructure projects.
Reference: Prime Minister’s Office’s official website
Check yourself: were the announcement and the formal launch of PM GatiShakti on the same day?
No — it was announced in the Independence Day speech on 15 August 2021 and formally launched separately, almost two months later, on 13 October 2021.
Revision task: note today’s release figure for ministries covered (58) and states/UTs (36), and compare them with the plan’s original scope at launch in 2021.
Test yourself
PM GatiShakti's National Master Plan, launched on 13 October 2021, puts ministries' data on one GIS platform to plan how many 'engines' of infrastructure together?
Show the answer
Answer: Seven
The seven 'engines' are roads, railways, ports, waterways, airports, mass transport and logistics; 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and UTs now use the plan, which holds over 23,493 data layers.
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