Goyal appreciated the progress made by central Ministries and States in stepping up the usage of the National Master Plan, especially to plan critical infrastructure. The Minister called for more training and capacity building to further boost the utilization of PM GatiShakti by various line ministries, departments and states.

New Delhi Oct 21 PTI The Union Cabinet on Thursday approved PM GatiShakti National Master Plan including implementation monitoring and support mechanism for providing multi-modal connectivityPrime Minister Narendra Modi on October 13 had launched a Rs 100 lakh crore national master plan for multi-modal connectivity to develop infrastructure to reduce logistic costs and boost the economyIt targets to cut logistic costs increase cargo handling capacity and reduce the turnaround timeThe Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs CCEA has approved the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan including the institutional framework for rolling out implementation monitoring and support mechanism for providing multi-modal connectivity an official statement saidAn Empowered Group of Secretaries EGOS headed by the Cabinet Secretary and secretaries of 18 ministries as members among others will be set upBriefing the media regarding the decision Union Minister Anurag Thakur said a Multimodal Network Planning Group NPG will be constituted with representation from the heads of the Network Planning Division from various ministries and departmentsThe NPG will be supported by a technical support unit TSU located in the Logistics Division of the Ministry of Commerce and IndustryThe TSU will have domain experts from various infrastructure sectors such as aviation maritime public transport rail roads and highways ports power pipeline GIS ICT financemarket PPP logistics data analytics among othersThe EGOS has been mandated to review and monitor the implementation of the PM GatiShakti NMP to ensure logistics efficiencyThe group is empowered to prescribe framework and norms for undertaking any subsequent amendments to the NMP according to the statementIt will also set out the procedure and definitive framework for synchronisation of various activities and ensure that infrastructure development initiatives are part of the common integrated digital platformEGOS will also look at the interventions required to meet the demand side in efficiently transporting bulk goods on the requirement of various Ministries like steel coal and fertilizer the statement saidThe CCEA has also approved formation composition and terms of reference for Network Planning Group NPG consisting of heads of Network Planning wing of respective infrastructure ministries and it will assist the EGOSBecause of the complexities involved in the overall integration of networks enhancing optimisation to avoid duplication of works for holistic development of any region as well as reducing logistics costs through micro-plan detailing the TSU is approved for providing the required competenciesThe PM GatiShakti NMP is intended to break departmental silos and bring in more holistic and integrated planning and execution of projects to address the issues of multi-modal connectivity and last-mile connectivityWith this approval PM GatiShakti shall bring in various stakeholders together and help integrate different modes of transportation it added PTI RR NKD BAL

Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], September 2 (ANI): Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday slammed the Central government over National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) by saying that the new scheme will create monopoly and duopoly in the economy.

Kolkata Aug 24 PTI Trinamool Congress Tuesday lashed out at the newly unveiled National Monetisation Pipeline calling it a dangerous bid by the bankrupt Narendra Modi government to raise money by gradually handing over sectors like rail road airport mining to the corporates TMC deputy leader in Rajya Sabha Sukhendu Sekhar Roy told a press meet here that the National Monetisation Pipeline is an unprecedented anti-people move which did not figure in the BJP election manifesto for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls There had neither been any discussion in the Parliament about the move Roy who is also TMC chief whip in Rajya Sabha said Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman had unveiled a four-year NMP worth Rs 6 lakh crore on Monday The NMP is a dangerous bid by the bankrupt Modi government National highways measuring 26700 km will be privatised along with 400 rail stations 150 trains a staggering 42300 km transmission line 8000 km-long GAIL pipeline 4000 km-long oil pipeline BSNL and MTNL towers are going to be handed over to corporates for 25-30 year lease which will be extended afterwards Roy said quoting from some documents Referring to the provision in the NMP for extension of the lease he said The Modi government will be there till 2024 How can it decide what wil be done after the next Lok Sabha elections The lease will become a perpetual lease he claimed and added that a total 160 coal mining projects 21 airports and 31 ports will be handed over to private companies in a similar manner Roy said Expressing outrage that such a central policy had been announced on the 75th year of Independence and terming it an unprecedented anti-people move he said the Modi government has earned the moniker of government of corporates for the corporates and by the corporates Describing the situation as an economic disaster the TMC MP said While the Modi government is selling off everything to raise money to meet the Centres financial bankruptcy there is no explanation why the central vista project is being commissioned at a cost of Rs 20000 crore and Rs 190 crore is being spent to build new house for the vice-president To a question Roy said TMC will chalk out a future course of action against the NMP in consultation with other opposition parties and after holding parleys within Trinamool Congress He alleged that the financial bankruptcy of the Centre was triggered by the demonetisation in 2016 against which TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee had launched strong protest He apprehended this would make employees in both organised and unorganised sectors vulnerable to retrenchment by new corporate owners On Monday Sitharaman had unveiled the National Monetisation Policy that talked about unlocking value of Centres brownfield projects by involving private companies across infrastructure sectors - from passenger trains and railway stations to airports roads and stadiums As many as 25 AAI airports including those at Chennai Bhopal Varanasi and Vadodara as well as 40 railway stations 15 railway stadiums and an unidentified number of railway colonies have been identified for getting private investments Stating that there will be no transfer of ownership or land she had said The NMP talks about brownfield infra assets where investments have already been made where there is a completed asset which is either languishing or which is remaining not fully monetised or which is remaining underutilised TMC had on Monday claimed that the NMP is an example of government getting privatised by crony capitalists and demanded the immediate rollback of the anti-people decision Roy had said that never before in the history of independent India a union government has so helplessly surrendered to the corporate This BJP government is run by the corporate of the corporate and for the corporate This government has been completely privatised by crony capitalists Under the garb of National Monetisation Pipeline NMP it is actually a privatisation programme he had said PTI SUS KK KK KK

New Delhi [India], August 22 (ANI): Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman will launch the National Monetisation Pipeline (NMP) on Monday in the national capital.