New Delhi, Feb. 10 -- The Ministry of Commerce & Industry announced on Tuesday that 352 infrastructure projects, with a total estimated cost of Rs 16.10 lakh crore, have been evaluated through the PM GatiShakti Network Planning Group (NPG) mechanism.

The NPG was created to ensure that major government projects are planned in an integrated way. According to the Ministry, the group "evaluates the critical infrastructure projects of the Central Government to ensure integrated planning, multimodality, inter-modality, synchronisation of efforts, last mile connectivity, comprehensive development in and around the project location, data-driven decision makings, etc at the planning stage."

Of the 352 projects reviewed to date, 201 have been san...