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National Logistics Policy
What it is
Launched Sep 2022 to cut logistics cost as a share of GDP and improve efficiency, complementing PM Gati Shakti's infrastructure coordination across 44 ministries. The sector also holds infrastructure status, giving access to cheaper long-term funding
It is a coordination and target framework rather than a spending scheme
Impact on industries
- Infrastructure status is the concrete benefit - it lowers the cost and lengthens the tenor of funding for warehousing and logistics assets
- Gati Shakti's digital coordination across ministries addresses the real problem, which is uncoordinated infrastructure rather than absent infrastructure
- It sets targets rather than funding them, so delivery depends on DFC, MMLP, road and port programmes executing on their own timelines
- Logistics cost as a share of GDP is contested as a metric, with estimates varying widely by methodology, so progress against the headline target is hard to verify