Centre plans to form empowered group of secretaries under Cabinet secretary to review implementation of PM GatiShakti
- The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) has decided to set up an institutional framework to implement, support and monitor the entire programme of PM GatiShakti- the national master plan for ‘multi-modal connectivity’.
- Under this, the government will constitute an empowered group of secretaries (EGOS), a network planning group and a technical support unit.
- EGOS: This will have the cabinet secretary as the Chairperson, the head of the commerce ministry’s logistics division as convenor and secretaries of 18 ministries as members.
- Term of Refenerence of EGOS : Review implementation of the programme and prescribe norms for undertaking any subsequent amendments to it.
- Network Planning Group: This group will assist the EGOS and consist of heads of such wings of respective infrastructure ministries.
- Technical support unit: It will have experts from various infrastructure sectors, including aviation, maritime, rail, roads and highways, ports, etc, to oversee the complexities involved in the overall integration of networks.
Source: Financial Express