National Logistics Policy at Three

Three years after Narendra Modi launched the National Logistics Policy on 17 September 2022, the government's own report card shows a freight system that is digitising and slowly getting cheaper — alongside an unsettled argument over how costly it really is. Twinned with the PM GatiShakti master plan, the policy set out to drag India's logistics bill toward global norms and push the country into the world's top 25 on the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index by 2030; it currently ranks 38th. A DPIIT-NCAER study now pegs the cost at 7.97% of GDP for 2023-24, far below the 13-14% long quoted — but the researchers themselves caution that the number moves sharply with method.