As many as 396 major infrastructure projects with a combined investment of ₹18.66 lakh crore are being tracked under the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (NMP), according to a government factsheet released on Monday, 12 October 2026. The data, current as of 11 August 2026, underscores the scale at which India is coordinating multimodal infrastructure development through a single digital planning framework.

Project Status at a Glance

Of the 396 projects under the plan, 256 have been sanctioned, and 198 of those are currently under implementation. The institutional framework is backed by a digital platform that equips planners with geospatial data, satellite imagery, and advanced analytical tools. The platform also hosts 23,493 data layers as of 12 October 2026, drawing infrastructure and contextual information onto a single GIS-based interface.

The PM GatiShakti Public Platform provides access to 230 approved datasets, enabling site suitability analysis, connectivity mapping, alignment planning, and regulatory compliance checks across sectors.

What the Plan Maps and Why It Matters

The NMP integrates economic, social, and logistics nodes with multimodal connectivity infrastructure — bringing development context directly into the planning process. Economic zones such as textile clusters, pharmaceutical parks, defence corridors, electronic parks, industrial corridors, fishing clusters, and agri zones are all mapped to support coordinated infrastructure planning.

A concrete example is the Khagaria–Purnea corridor in Bihar, where the upgraded route is planned to connect five PM GatiShakti Economic Nodes — including a textile cluster, mega food parks, and fishing and seafood parks — along with 11 logistics nodes. The planned connectivity aims to accelerate the movement of both goods and passengers across the region.

This comes amid India's broader infrastructure push, where roads, railways, ports, airports, waterways, and utilities frequently converge within the same geographic zones. Planning these networks in isolation has historically led to cost overruns, duplication, and missed linkages. The GatiShakti framework attempts to address precisely that.

Six Principles, Seven Engines

PM GatiShakti is guided by six core principles: integrated development, multimodal infrastructure, last-mile connectivity, expedited land acquisition, minimised clearances, and reduced ecological impact. The plan's seven infrastructure engines — roads, railways, ports, waterways, airports, mass transport, and logistics infrastructure — form the backbone of its sectoral coverage.

The plan spans 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 states and Union Territories, making it one of the most comprehensive spatial planning frameworks in India's administrative history.

Five Years On: The Platform's Growth

Launched on 13 October 2021, the PM GatiShakti NMP brought data from multiple ministries, states, and Union Territories onto a common Geographic Information System (GIS)-based platform for the first time. Five years on, the framework has evolved from a coordination tool into a nationwide planning standard, with its data layers and approved datasets growing substantially since inception.

Notably, this is one of the few infrastructure planning initiatives in India to explicitly incorporate missing connectivity gap analysis — identifying where the absence of a link could disrupt the seamless movement of people, goods, and services. As the plan approaches the halfway mark of its implementation cycle, the focus will increasingly shift from project sanctioning to on-ground delivery.