NEW DELHI: Looking to expedite clearances of infrastructure projects and bring a better coordination in line with the PM Gati Shakti plan, the Government is eyeing seamless transfer of logistics data across various Ministries by November. "We are reconciling the complete legacy data so by the first week of November actually, everything would be shifted to this," Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) Secretary Anurag Jain was quoted as saying recently.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the National Logistics Policy last week, which was cleared by the Union Cabinet recently. The policy seeks to reduce the cost of logistics in India to be comparable to global benchmarks by 2030; improve India's ranking in the Logistics Performance Index from 44 in 2018 to within the
top 25 by 2030; and create a data-driven decision support mechanism for an efficient logistics ecosystem.
The Government aims to reduce the logistics cost in India from about 13% of the gross domestic product to 7.5-8%. "The target is that we reach the international standards by 2030 but the impact will start coming right away,"
he said.
Jain said the logistics policy will work in tandem with PM Gati Shakti to expedite the implementation of the required infrastructure.
Jain said that at present Railways Ministry, Statistics and Programme Implementation Ministry, the Department of Economic Affairs, and many other Government entities provide data on infrastructure projects. These are housed separately on the National Infrastructure Pipeline, Pragati, or PM GatiShakti portals.
"So instead of developing another portal, we have integrated everything into just one portal. The whole redesign has been done. All these portals have been integrated and they would have to make entry only one portal and everything else will draw the required fields from those," he said.
