A review meeting on PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP) under the chairpersonship of Special Secretary (Logistics), DPIIT, GoI, Sumita Dawra with officials of Government of Nagaland was also held at Kohima on Wednesday. The objective of the meeting is to promote wider adoption of PM GatiShakti for holistic planning, bring more vigour and build synergy with all the stakeholders of the PM GatiShakti NMP.
DIPR stated that the review meeting was addressed by Chief Secretary, Government of Nagaland, J Alam, and Dawra. Over 30 officials of Government of Nagaland comprising the members from Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS) and Network Planning Group (NPG) of State attended the meeting.
Special Secretary, Sumita Dawra, in her presentation addressed the adoption of PM GatiShakti with a holistic approach and demonstrations of best practices by Ministries and States. Deliberations on requirements for State Master Planning, with special attention on data quality management, area development approach for developing economic centres in the North East, strengthening the North East corridor through adequate multimodal connectivity, Area planning approach for upcoming infrastructure projects, use of technology for improving logistics efficiency were the main highlights of the meeting.
Since the launch of PM GatiShakti National Master Plan, the Nagaland State has created a requisite framework in terms of Institutional Arrangements/Policy Formulation for alignment with PM GatiShakti framework. Empowered Group of Secretaries (EGoS), Network Planning Group (NPG), and Technical Support Unit (TSU) have been constituted in the State comprising various departments like Power, Roads, Urban Development, Tourism, Transport etc. As on 13 June 2023 out of 30 mandatory data layers, twenty-two (total/partial) have been integrated in the State Master Plan (SMP) platform. Data layers such as Forest, Eco sensitive zones, Village habitations, Economic areas, Roads, etc have been integrated.
As part of Special Assistance Scheme for the States under Part-II for the FY 2022-23, an amount of Rs 28.43 crores was disbursed for the projects mentioned below.
- Modern Aggregation Centre at Longnak, Mokokchung District
- Modern Aggregation Centre at Changtongya, Mokokchung District
- Integrated warehouse and distribution centre at Meluri, Phek District
- PM GatiShakti Data centre at Kohima
- Modern Aggregation Centre at Pfutsero, Phek District
Five projects submitted as part of the State Annual Action Plan have been mapped on the SMP. Development of Customised tools important for economic and social infrastructure planning and for decision making is under discussion with BISAG-N.
To complement the PM GatiShakti NMP, the National Logistics Policy (NLP) was launched to address the components of improving efficiency in logistics services and human resource through streamlining processes, regulatory framework, skill development, mainstreaming logistics in higher education and adoption of suitable technologies. To bring a holistic focus on Logistics at State level, Nagaland State Logistics Policy is under final draft stage with State.
The State participated in the Fourth Regional Workshop of PM GatiShakti for North East Regional Workshop which was conducted on 24-25 March 2023 in Guwahati, Assam. State has been regularly participating in zonal review meetings and interacts with DPIIT officials for better coordination on the adoption of PM GatiShakti. The training and capacity building of Govt officers from the State have been done at BISAG-N, Gandhinagar
The meeting concluded with the following remarks from Sumita Dawra, Special Secretary, Logistics, DPIIT, Govt. of India requesting the State on the following:
- Use NMP/SMP for planning all upcoming infrastructure projects.
- Improve data mapping and authenticity of data on the data layers mapped on SMP.
- Focus on development of economic centres in the North East through appropriate infrastructure and logistics development.
- Usage of SMP for Area Development Approach on the identified area
- Identify critical infrastructure gaps and ensure they are taken up for connectivity projects.
- Onboarding of social sector departments of the State in PM Gatishakti for Planning of social infrastructure
- Leverage local remote sensing agencies / space agencies for development of geo-tagged data, under guidance of BISAG-N, Ahmedabad
- Sensitizing and penetration of PMGS adoption at district level for effective area development planning, to improve both Ease of Doing Business and Ease of Living of citizens.
PM GatiShakti is a transformative approach which was launched on 13 October 2021 by the Prime Minister for planning & building Next Generation Infrastructure in the country, thereby promoting multimodal logistics connectivity to improve both Ease of Living as well as Ease of Doing Business.
