Push to Gatishakti: Centre firms up screening of public-funded projects

To ensure these have logistics & infrastructure connectivity, before it receives Cabinet nod

Government departments and ministries will have to screen all public-funded projects with a budgetary outlay of more than Rs 500 crore to ensure such projects have components of logistics and infrastructure connectivity, before it receives the nod from the Union Cabinet.

The finance ministry, in a recent directive seen by Business Standard, stated that all public-funded projects will have to be examined by an inter-ministerial body — Network Planning Group under PM GatiShakti — and see if all government departments have been coordinating and working in tandem with each other at the conceptualisation stage of a project.

The directive was