81 high-impact infrastructure projects make it to Gati Shakti list

Road projects top the pecking order, states to upload data by March-end

The industry department has identified 81 high-impact projects under various infrastructure ministries for the government’s Gati Shakti initiative. These projects will be closely monitored in 2022-23, according to officials.   

Major industrial corridors of National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (NICDC), key expressways and highways, such as 1,257-km Amritsar-Jamnagar expressway, 1,350-km Delhi-Mumbai expressway, and 210-km Delhi-Saharanpur-Dehradun expressway, and the world’s largest broadband project BharatNet will be among the government’s priority projects, two officials told Business Standard.

Of the 81 high-impact projects that have been identified, 50 per cent belong to the ministry of road transport and highways, followed by others. ‘’These projects have