In what may turn out to be a landmark development for India’s realty and construction sectors, the Prime Minister Narendra Modi--while inaugurating the post-budget Webinar on ‘Infrastructure and Investment-Improving Logistics Efficiency' recently--said that India's infrastructure development, which is the key propeller of the economy, requires moving ahead aggressively to push the nation’s growth and help it become developed by 2047. For those not tuned in, the said webinar is a part of a chain of the government-organized 12 webinars, to look for ideas and suggestions, for the effective execution of the initiatives made public through the Union Budget for the FY 2023-24. The prime minister said that the budget for 2023-2024 will ignite the infrastructure segment, adding that infrastructure development has been a vital cog in the wheel of a nation’s development. He further said that as a part of the National Infrastructure Pipeline, the government is planning to pump in INR 110 lakh crore over the course of the next couple of years. The prime minister also stated that all the involved parties must seize the moment as this is the right time for new responsibilities, new possibilities and brave decisions, adding the average yearly construction at present of National Highways has become nearly 200% of what it was before 2014.
Gati Shakti National Master Plan
The PM said that the plan would improve the country’s infrastructure and multimodal logistics, adding that the results of the plan are becoming noticeable and the government has recognized the gaps that were derailing the overall logistics efficiency. He also underscored that under the plan, 100 major infrastructure gap projects have been singled out for development in FY 2023-24 and INR 75,000 Cr. has been set aside for the purpose.
He wrapped-up his webinar talk by saying that courtesy multimodal infrastructure development, the country’s logistics expenses will decrease more, and make the ease of living and the ease of doing business in the nation much better.
