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On Wednesday, COAI congratulated PM Modi for the launch of the "ambitious" Gati Shakti project. It will be a multi-modal connectivity plan, and will boost the country's digital infrastructure capacity. Since it will rely heavily on connectivity, the vision will bring vast investment to India's telecom infrastructure as well.
Gati Shakti Vision - India's Plan to Bring Digitalization
The initiative, launched by PM Modi this week, will provide a platform to ensure seamless flow of information between industries. This will, in turn, allow industries to work better together on major projects. Along with this, the Gati Shakti plan will also supply industries with information and guidance. Also, it will ease policymaking and remove government spending from the picture.
The industry body added that the project aligns well with the recent telecom sector reforms. COAI also added that Gati Shakti will also propel the country's economy. What's more, the telecom infrastructure of the country will see major development; it will make use of the same to deliver connectivity. As an effort to streamline everything better, the platform will bring together 16 ministries, including telecom, to plan out and build infrastructure projects till 2025.
On the occasion, Lt. Gen. Dr. SP Kochhar, Director General, COAI, said, "COAI is happy to note that the Government is going to use data from 16 different ministries and put this on the digital platform made by BISAG-N. Digitization and digital technologies enabled by resilient wireline and wireless broadband connectivity will be a cornerstone for the work to be done under the ambitious Gati Shakti - National Master Plan for Multi Modal Connectivity, the objective of which is coordinated and integrated planning and execution of national infrastructure projects".
The project will also seek to increase the ease of doing business and accelerate economic growth, planning and execution of projects. The telecom body also said that the National Master Plan will improve India’s competitiveness across industries in the world. It added that the country needs to understand that "seamless connectivity is the roadmap to our vision of 'Digital India'".
Furthermore, according to the PM, the project will cause a conceptual change. He said that the ministries will no longer work in silos and integrate the planning and designing of projects with a holistic vision.