October 13, 2025 marks the fourth anniversary of the PM Gati Shakti National Master Plan (NMP), launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 13, 2021. To commemorate this milestone, the government announced a landmark expansion: the PM Gati Shakti portal — a GIS-enabled infrastructure planning tool — will now be made accessible to private sector firms, marking a transformational shift in India's logistics and infrastructure planning ecosystem.
The PM Gati Shakti NMP was designed to break silos across more than 57 Central Ministries, Departments, and States/UTs and ensure coordinated, multi-modal infrastructure development. It integrates data layers covering roads, railways, waterways, airports, logistics parks, utility corridors, and land use. Until now, the portal was primarily a government-facing tool used by central and state ministries for project planning, land acquisition coordination, and utilities mapping.
By opening the portal to private players, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) under Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal aims to enable industries to plan their supply chains, factory locations, and distribution networks with direct access to government infrastructure data. This democratisation of planning data is expected to reduce logistics costs, improve investment decisions, and accelerate project approvals.
Simultaneously, LEAPS 2025 (Logistics Ease Across Different States) — India's state-level logistics benchmarking framework — was also launched at the anniversary event. Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal unveiled LEAPS 2025 rankings, which assess states on logistics performance across five pillars: infrastructure, services, operating environment, human resources, and innovation. This framework mirrors the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index but is tailored to India's federal structure.
For Rajasthan, logistics performance is critical given its geographic centrality: it borders five states and provides connectivity to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC). The Rajasthan government has been investing in logistics parks, ICD (Inland Container Depots), and multi-modal hubs at Jodhpur, Phulera, and Bhiwadi.
The Gati Shakti approach reflects India's move towards 'whole-of-government' infrastructure planning, integrating the public and private sectors into a unified planning framework.