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 Gati Shakti is a national master plan for multi-modal connectivity. It was launched by the Prime Minister of India on 13th Oct 2021. It essentially serves as a digital platform to unite 16 ministries, including those in charge of roads and railways, in order to plan and carry out infrastructure connectivity projects in a coordinated manner. Under this projects more than 100 crores rupees will be invested. Various kinds of infrastructure projects will be completed by 2024-2025. Traditionally, these was a lack of coordination between different departments, for examples once a road was constructed, other agencies dug up the constructed road for activities like laying underground cables, gas pipelines etc. This not only caused great inconvenience but also a wasteful expenditure. Recently the government has launched Call Before You Dig app which will be worked as the coordinator of the agencies. The platform would help in increasing productivity of industry, support the local manufact...

  The Call Before u Dig mobile application will connect excavators and asset owners through SMS/Email notifications and click to call so that there are planned excavations in the country while ensuring the safety of underground assets. It seeks to stop harm to underlying assets—such as optical fiber cables—caused by haphazard digging and excavation. According to a Press Information Bureau (PIB) announcement, this results in losses of roughly Rs 3000 crore per year. CBuD App The Department of Telecommunications, Ministry of Communications, and the Bhaskaracharya Institute for Space Applications and Geoinformatics working under the Gujrat government launched the Call Before u Dig smartphone application. On Wednesday, the honorable  Prime Minister of India unveiled the "Call Before u Dig" (CBuD) app. Excavator It intends to provide excavation contractors with a point of contact so they may learn whether there are any subsurface utilities present before beginning excavation w...