Depts turning to GatiShakti to reduce execution time for infra projects

With this, the time taken for a project can be cut by at least 100 days

Government departments have started making use of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Gati Shakti-led digital technology initiative to reduce the execution time for infrastructure projects by about three-four months.

Officials from the ministry of road transport and highways and National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) have been attending workshops in Gujarat-based Bhaskaracharya National Institute for Space Applications and Geo-informatics (BISAG-N) to draft the alignment of five expressways digitally, a senior government official said.

Once alignments are finalised using digital technology, the project will go into the detailed project report (DPR) stage. DPR is an elaborate plan of a project, entailing its planning, design,