Centre working to reduce logistics cost to GDP to 7.5% in 5 years: Home Minister Amit Shah
The Hindu
The Union government is working to bring down logistics cost to GDP to 7.5% from the current 13%, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on March 28. Addressing the annual session of Assocham, Mr. Shah said, without the development of the country’s infrastructure and reduction of logistics costs, development was not possible. “The logistics cost in India is 13% to the GDP as compared to 8% in the rest of the world, making it difficult for Indian exports to compete globally,” he said.
The Union government is working to bring down logistics cost to GDP to 7.5% from the current 13%, Union Home Minister Amit Shah said on March 28.
Addressing the annual session of Assocham, Mr. Shah said, without the development of the country's infrastructure and reduction of logistics costs, development was not possible.
“The logistics cost in India is 13% to the GDP as compared to 8% in the rest of the world, making it difficult for Indian exports to compete globally,” he said.
"We will have to remove the eight per cent and 13 per cent gap. We have formulated a framework for the next five years. I can assure you that we will reach 7.5% logistics cost in the next five years," he said.
Mr. Shah said the Narendra Modi government has made a plan of ₹100 lakh crore investment in infrastructure with some mega projects such as the doubling of railway lines, their widening, dedicated freight corridors from Mumbai to Delhi and Amritsar to Kolkata besides 11 other industrial corridors.
Citing other achievements in the infrastructure sector through major schemes, Mr. Shah said the government has set a target to bring down logistics costs below the national average by 2028 to make exports globally competitive.
The Minister expressed confidence that the Modi government has laid a strong foundation for making India a developed nation by 2047 and a $5 trillion economy by 2022.
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