PM GatiShakti National Master Plan

What is the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan?

PM GatiShakti National Master Plan is a digital, geospatial planning platform launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on 13 October 2021, with Cabinet approval following on 21 October 2021. It is anchored in the Logistics Division of the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade under the Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

According to the PM GatiShakti portal, the master plan was developed by BISAG-N as a digital master planning tool using geographic information systems, incorporating ISRO satellite imagery and Survey of India base maps, and hosted on the Government of India's MeghRaj cloud.

The problem it addresses is coordination. Roads, rail lines, ports, power lines, gas pipelines and telecom cables were each planned within their own ministry. The result was a road dug up months after it was laid, a port terminal without rail connectivity, or an industrial cluster without last-mile access. PM GatiShakti places every ministry's assets and plans on one map so those conflicts are visible before construction, not after.

Key objectives

• Provide multimodal connectivity infrastructure to economic zones, so freight and passengers move across modes without breaks.
• Replace siloed ministry-by-ministry planning with a "whole of government" approach on a common geospatial base.
• Ensure last-mile connectivity to economic and social nodes is designed in at planning stage.
• Cut project delays and cost overruns caused by clearance, land and right-of-way conflicts discovered late.

Main features

• Around 1,700 data layers integrated; about 969 from states and UTs and 731 from central ministries and departments.
• 57 central ministries and departments and 36 states and union territories onboarded, against 16 ministries at launch.
• Seven engines of growth, railways, roads, ports, waterways, airports, mass transport and logistics infrastructure.
• Institutional evaluation through the Network Planning Group (NPG), which had evaluated 352 projects worth Rs 16.10 lakh crore as of February 2026.

What are the seven engines and supporting pillars?

Each engine is represented on the master plan by its own data layers, existing alignments, planned alignments, land parcels, terminals and economic nodes, so a project in one engine can be checked against every other engine before it is approved.

How does the Network Planning Group work?

The Network Planning Group is the inter-ministerial body that examines large infrastructure projects against PM GatiShakti principles. It meets at DPIIT and evaluates projects submitted by ministries such as Railways, Road Transport and Highways, Civil Aviation, Housing and Urban Affairs, Ports, Shipping and Waterways.

The evaluation tests three things: conformity to integrated multimodal infrastructure, last-mile connectivity to economic and social nodes, and the whole-of-government approach. The NPG does not sanction funds, that remains with the executing ministry and the usual appraisal machinery.

The pace is steady rather than occasional. The 109th NPG meeting on 25 February 2026 evaluated two rail projects, one metro project and one airport project. The 110th meeting on 24 March 2026 examined two rail projects, two metro projects and two road and highway schemes.

Who uses the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan?

Who has access and uses it:

• Central ministries and departments to 57 of them, each with its own login to upload and periodically update project and asset data.
• State and union territory governments to 36 onboarded, each operating through a nominated nodal officer and a State Technical Support Unit.
• BISAG-N, which builds and maintains the platform and manages API-based data integration.
• The Network Planning Group and the supported Group of Secretaries, which use the platform for project evaluation and oversight.

You are not eligible if:

• You are a citizen seeking a benefit; PM GatiShakti pays no individual benefit and has no citizen enrolment or application form.
• You are a private company wanting portal login; access credentials are issued to government ministries, departments and states, not to private users.
• You are seeking project funding — the master plan is a planning instrument and does not sanction money; funding stays with the executing ministry's budget.
• You want a specific road or rail line approved by writing to PM GatiShakti; projects reach the NPG only through the sponsoring ministry or state department.

How to apply for access to the PM GatiShakti portal

Access is institutional. A ministry, department or state follows this route:

1. Nominate a nodal officer for the ministry, department or state, and set up a Technical Support Unit where required, communicating the nomination to the Logistics Division of DPIIT.
2. Request login credentials for the National Master Plan portal at pmgatishakti.gov.in through the Logistics Division and BISAG-N.
3. Map the department's existing and planned assets as GIS data layers, working with BISAG-N on formats and API-based integration.
4. Upload and periodically update project data; alignments, status, land details; on the portal as required under the scheme.
5. For a project needing evaluation, submit the Detailed Project Report and geospatial alignment to the Network Planning Group through the sponsoring ministry, which places it on the NPG agenda.
6. Use the Help & Support section of the portal, which carries FAQs and process flowcharts, for operational queries during onboarding.

For a private contractor or developer, the point of entry is not this portal at all. It is the tender issued by the ministry or state executing the project once it clears NPG evaluation.

What has PM GatiShakti achieved?

Measured by evaluation throughput, the platform has processed a large share of India's infrastructure pipeline. 352 projects with an estimated cost of Rs 16.10 lakh crore had been evaluated through the NPG mechanism as of February 2026, covering rail corridors, metro systems, airports, highways and port connectivity.

Coverage has widened sharply since launch. The programme began with 16 ministries integrated in October 2021 and now hosts 57 central ministries and departments alongside 36 states and union territories on the same geospatial base, which is what makes cross-sector conflict detection possible in practice rather than in principle.

How PM GatiShakti and the National Logistics Policy fit together

PM GatiShakti and the National Logistics Policy are two halves of the same strategy in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. GatiShakti works on the hard side: where a rail line, port terminal, highway or airport goes, and how it connects to everything else. The National Logistics Policy, launched on 17 September 2022, works on the soft side, the processes, digital platforms, standards, skills and service quality that determine how efficiently goods actually move over that infrastructure.

Neither delivers a subsidy. Together they set the planning and process framework within which sectoral ministries spend their own budgets.

Where to raise a PM GatiShakti query

• Help & Support section of pmgatishakti.gov.in, which carries FAQs and process flowcharts for onboarded users.
• Logistics Division, DPIIT, Ministry of Commerce and Industry. The nodal authority for the National Master Plan.
• BISAG-N for technical and data-integration questions raised by onboarded ministries and states.
• State nodal officer or State Technical Support Unit for state-level project mapping questions.
• pgportal.gov.in for formal grievances against a central department.

PM GatiShakti involves no fee and no citizen registration. Any offer to "register your project under PM GatiShakti" for a payment is unconnected to the programme.