As many as 208 infrastructure projects of different ministries, including roads and railways, worth Rs 15.39 lakh crore have been recommended for approval under the PM GatiShakti initiative so far. These projects have been recommended by the Network Planning Group (NPG) constituted under the PM GatiShakti initiative.

The maximum number of projects recommended are related to roads (101), railways (73), urban development (12), and four from the oil and gas ministry. All logistics and connectivity infrastructure projects, entailing investments of over Rs 500 crore are routed through the NPG. Its approval is required before the clearance of the project by the Public Investment Board (PIB) or Department of Expenditure under the finance ministry.

Also, as many as 156 critical infrastructure gaps to ports and for movement of bulk commodities like coal and cement have been identified for intervention under the PM Gati Shakti initiative. 

The National Master Plan (NMP) has over 1,600 layers of geospatial data, showing all physical and social infrastructure of an area and land records in one place. All these departments approach the NPG first for approval before making a detailed project report (DPR) at the planning stage.