Govt speeds up uploading data layers on GatiShakti
Concerned ministries will develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for data management, enhance capacity
New Delhi: All Union economic ministries and departments, along with the Department of Defence Production under the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Earth Sciences, have agreed to proactively identify and upload various data layers on the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (PMGS-NMP), develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for data management, and enhance capacity. The agreement is in principle, official sources told Bizz Buzz, adding that a decision to that effect is likely to be announced soon.
A data layer is a JavaScript object that is used to pass information from a website to a container for storage and processing. More than 32 officials representing 18 ministries and departments recently met to deliberate upon the onboarding of GIS data layers on the PMGS-NMP, benefits of using the platform for planning, and to review the progress made so far.
The ministries and departments were: Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Chemicals & Petrochemicals, Fertilisers, Coal, Commerce, Food & Public Distribution, Defence Production, Electronics & Information Technology, Economic Affairs, Revenue, Animal Husbandry & Dairying, Fisheries, Food Processing Industries, Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Mines, Steel, Earth Sciences, and Pharmaceuticals.
The Department for Promotion of Industry & Internal Trade (DPIIT), under the Ministry of Commerce & Industry, is the nodal agency for PMGS-NMP.
At the meeting, DPIIT Additional Secretary Rajeev Singh Thakur highlighted PM GatiShakti principles to be adopted for integrated planning and holistic development of socioeconomic infrastructure.
He further emphasized PMGS-NMP as a comprehensive and sustainable strategy to reshape India’s infrastructure, by fostering integrated planning and harmonised project implementation involving not just all ministries concerned, but also State governments. This whole-of-government approach is embraced to enhance decision making in project planning as well as ease of doing and ease of living, he added. This interactive session facilitated an exchange of best practices, challenges faced, and potential solutions, fostering a collaborative approach towards seamless implementation, the sources said.
