‘Taking Gati Shakti at district levels to enhance efficiency’

“We are trying to take the PM Gati Shakti initiative not only to the state levels for their logistics planning but also to the districts for their district level planning. We are also trying to build new technologies such as AI, ML and digital twins into PM Gati Shakti approach,” said Pankaj Kumar, Joint Secretary Logistics at the recently concluded FICCI Gati Shakti Logistics Summit focused on Accelerating India’s Logistics Vision for Viksit Bharat 2047. He added, “So as far as the national logistics policy is concerned, we are engaged into having a data based, evidence based, primary survey based logistic cost in India. We always talk about high logistics cost — 13%, 14%, and we want to reduce it to 9%. But I assure you all that there is no survey conducted to authenticate or verify it. Our focus is getting that survey done and we are working on it.”