PM GatiShakti marks a shift from siloed to integrated infrastructure planning. Assess its achievements in five years and the remaining institutional gaps.

PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (PMGS-NMP) was launched on 13 October 2021. It put the route-fixing that each Ministry used to do alone onto one shared GIS platform. That platform covers 58 Central Ministries/Departments and all 36 States/UTs [1]. After five years, it has largely solved the information problem in infrastructure planning but not the enforcement problem.

Achievements

• One common map: the platform holds 23,493+ geospatial data layers. Bharatmala, Sagarmala, UDAN and inland waterways now sit on it together [1].
• Screening before sanction: a three-tier structure checks projects before they are approved. It has the EGoS (chaired by the Cabinet Secretary), the Network Planning Group and a Technical Support Unit. The NPG has evaluated 396 projects worth about ₹18.66 lakh crore [1].
• Open data: PM GatiShakti Public offers 230 datasets for site suitability, alignment planning and compliance checks [1].
• Cooperative federalism: 26 States/UTs had notified State Logistics Policies by 2024 [2].
• Capacity building: Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya has trained 2.4 lakh+ officers [1].
• Reliable baseline: the DPIIT–NCAER study puts logistics cost at 7.97% of GDP for 2023–24. This replaces older unofficial estimates of 13–14% [3].

Remaining institutional gaps

• Advisory, not binding: EGoS and NPG are committees of officials. Only 198 of the 396 evaluated projects are under implementation [1].
• Land and clearances: land is a State subject under the Seventh Schedule. The platform cannot acquire land under the RFCTLARR Act, 2013, and it cannot grant forest clearances.
• Uneven State uptake: some State policies were still drafts in 2025. Gaps in regulatory harmonisation and weak digital skills among small operators remain [4].
• No outcome data: no public figures show the time or cost saved per project. Smaller firms still pay much more for logistics [3].
• Multimodality incomplete: NITI Aayog says a seamless end-to-end network is still some way off [5].
• Split authority: a separate Integrated Transport & Logistics Authority (ITLA) was needed for 10+ year planning and for appraising projects of ₹500 crore or more. This shows the limits of the NMP [1].

PM GatiShakti has given India one shared map and a check before sanction, which is a real break from siloed planning. The next steps are:

• set up ITLA with data-use rules aligned to the DPDP Act, 2023;
• repeat the logistics-cost study every year, broken down by State and firm size;
• publish planned versus actual time and cost for sanctioned projects;
• train State revenue and forest officials.

Turning coordination into accountable delivery would anchor the National Logistics Policy's goal of reaching the top 25 of the Logistics Performance Index by 2030 [6].