ENA Global 2023-09-08 14:04:38 <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong>New Delhi, Sept 8 (KNN)</strong> India displayed PM Gatishakti National Master Plan at the 2023 Regional Cooperation and Integration Conference: Strengthening Regional Cooperation and Integration through Economic Corridor Development (ECD).</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">The conference was organized by Asian Development Bank (ADB) at Tbilisi, Georgia from 5 to 7 September, 2023.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px"><strong><a href="https://bit.ly/3B9mZSj"><img alt="FOLLOW US on GOOGLE NEWS" src="https://knnindia.co.in//uploads/gallery/GoogleNews.jpg" style="border-style:solid; border-width:1px; height:95px; margin:1px; width:299px" /></a></strong></span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">It observed participation from more than 30 member countries comprising senior officials of ADBs Developing Member Countries responsible for ECD, representatives of Development partner agencies and Regional cooperation organizations.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Indian delegation was led by Special Secretary (Logistics), Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Sumita Dawra.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Dawra informed the conference that PM GatiShakti National Master Plan for Multi-modal Connectivity, a Made in India initiative, is a transformative whole-of-government approach for integrated planning of multimodal infrastructure connectivity to economic nodes and social infrastructure, thereby improving logistics efficiency. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">She mentioned the Government of Indias (GoI) targeted interventions and huge capex push to infrastructure investments and adoption of geospatial and other cutting-edge technologies towards transforming the entire logistics and infrastructure ecosystem.</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">She showcased PM GatiShakti, the GIS data-based, whole of Government approach to integrated infrastructure master planning. While global pioneers were brought together by ADB to brainstorm over broadening the scope of its ECD framework for regional cooperation. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Special Secretary highlighted that India has already operationalised and is successfully implementing the PM GatiShakti, transformative approach to area-based infrastructure development. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">She said that under PM GatiShakti a spatial / area based holistic development approach is being adopted to saturate influence areas around critical project locations / industrial clusters / tourist sites / social sector assets. </span></p> <p><span style="font-size:14px">Assessment of connectivity infrastructure requirements to integrate manufacturing value chain; logistics facilities, social sector institutions such as schools and hospitals; skilling centres is done at the planning stage and spatial plans are developed accordingly. <em><strong>(KNN Bureau)</strong></em></span></p> 34709 https://knnindia.co.in/news/newsdetails/global/india-showcases-pm-gatishakti-plan-at-adbs-regional-cooperation-conference 2023-09-08 14:04:38 knnindia.co.in