PM GatiShakti at Five: 58 Ministries, 23,493 Data Layers

The correct answer is 13 October 2021, which is why the plan completes five years in October 2026. The idea was to put data held by different ministries, states and union territories onto one Geographic Information System platform so that road, rail, port, airport, waterway and utility networks could be planned together instead of in isolation. Option B is wrong because no launch on that date is recorded for this plan. Option C, 13 October 2022, names the right day of the year but the wrong year, and 2022 is instead the year Gati Shakti Vishwavidyalaya was established, so candidates often mix the two. Option D falls before the plan existed. Five years on, the platform covers 58 Central Ministries and Departments and all 36 States and Union Territories.

The correct answer is 58. The master plan brings 58 Central Ministries and Departments into a single planning framework, so that infrastructure proposals can be assessed across sectors rather than ministry by ministry. Option A, 36, is the number of States and Union Territories covered by the plan, and the pair of figures is easy to swap in an exam. Option B belongs to the Unified Logistics Interface Platform, which had connected 46 government systems as of July 2026 through its application programming interfaces. Option D, 230, is the count of approved datasets made available on the public PM GatiShakti platform for site suitability analysis, connectivity mapping, alignment planning and compliance checks. Only option C answers the question asked, which is about ministries and departments.

The correct answer is 500 crore rupees. The Union Cabinet has approved setting up the Integrated Transport and Logistics Authority, which will take a long-term view of transport planning. It will prepare a National Transport Master Plan with a horizon of ten years or more, assess sectoral and annual transport plans, appraise projects costing 500 crore rupees or more, and monitor their implementation. The other three thresholds are plausible figures for project appraisal but none of them is the limit set for this authority. The authority will also build a National Transport Data Repository by pulling together information from sources such as FASTag, Vahan and GSTN e-way bills, which gives planners a single view of how goods and people actually move across the country.

The correct answer is 23,493. That is the number of data layers on the common Geographic Information System platform as of 12 October 2026, covering infrastructure assets and other information that planners need when they fix an alignment or test a site. Option A is close to the count of projects the Network Planning Group has appraised, which is 396, and is offered here as a trap built from that figure. Option B is simply a plausible intermediate number with no basis in the plan. Option D is built out of the 58 ministries and departments the plan covers and is far above the actual layer count. Separately, the public platform carries 230 approved datasets, and private users have had access through a query-based mechanism since October 2025.