PM chairs meeting with Cabinet Ministers to boost logistics in industrial hubs

To workout the master plan of providing multi-modal connectivity to various economic zones, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on August 17 chaired a meeting with key cabinet ministers, including Nitin Gadkari (transport), Mansukh Mandaviya (shipping), Piyush Goyal (trade and railway), Nirmala Sitharaman (finance) and Hardeep Singh Puri (aviation). “This is an important endeavour that will boost productivity, infrastructure, economic progress and opportunities for our youngsters,” PM tweeted.
The meeting took place after the Prime Minister said that it was necessary to give a new direction to the overall development of the country’s infrastructure and that this integration of the main modes of road, rail, air and river transport was crucial. “It is important to break the era of ‘working in silos’ in infrastructure,” he adds.
“We cannot work in silos. We don’t need a situation where in the infrastructure sector the road sector will only work for roads and the rail sector will only work for rail. There is no coordination between the airport and the port which is not desirable,” Modi said on the Independence Day.