We will aim at next generation infrastructure which will include gas grids and water grids, i-ways, regional airports and way side amenities along National highways… we will establish a National Warehousing Grid along National Highways to ensure necessary logistical support.

This entry was imported as a promise to "cut India's logistics cost from 14% to 8%". Neither number is in the 2019 manifesto. Both come from commentary around the National Logistics Policy, which was announced in September 2022 — three years after the manifesto — and the 13 to 14 per cent figure originates in private consultancy estimates rather than any official measurement.

The correction matters because the government has now published its own measurement, and it lands nowhere near 14. The Ministry of Commerce and Industry told the Lok Sabha on 11 August 2026: "An assessment of logistic cost has been carried out by DPIIT in the year 2025 in collaboration with National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER). As per the assessment, the logistics cost in India is estimated at 7.9% of the GDP, which is at par with the advanced economies in the world."

Read carefully, that is not evidence of a fall from 14 to 7.9. It is the first official Indian estimate of a quantity nobody had measured officially before, produced on its own methodology. A number computed one way in 2025 cannot be subtracted from a number computed a different way by someone else in 2018. Anyone citing a "halving" of logistics costs is comparing two incompatible estimates — and so was the imported claim, in the opposite direction.

What the 2019 manifesto did promise on this subject is narrower: "next generation infrastructure which will include gas grids and water grids, i-ways, regional airports and way side amenities along National highways", and, in the agriculture section, "a National Warehousing Grid along National Highways to ensure necessary logistical support."

The planning machinery built since is real. PM Gati Shakti, launched in October 2021, has onboarded "58 Central Ministries/Departments and all 36 States/UTs", integrated about 1,800 data layers and evaluated "396 infrastructure projects with total estimated cost of about ₹18.66 Lakh Crore" through its Network Planning Group, of which "256 projects have been sanctioned - out of which, 198 projects are under implementation." A public platform opened in September 2025 giving private users query access to the same data.

But note what the ministry says about the initiative's own accountability: "PM GatiShakti provides an integrated planning framework; the approval and implementation of the projects are undertaken by the respective central Ministries/Departments and States/UTs under their plans, schemes, procedures and budgetary/funding provisions. Hence, no quantified targets or expenditure requirements have been set under PM GatiShakti initiative." A programme with no targets cannot miss them, and cannot be shown to have met them either.

On impact, the answer offers general attribution rather than measurement — that integrated planning initiatives "have improved logistics efficiency, turn-around time, ease of doing business, industrial growth and reduced logistics cost" — plus an IIM Bangalore finding that a rupee spent on national highways raises GDP by ₹3.2. Neither isolates the contribution of any one policy.

The imported target was never made and the imported baseline was never official. The infrastructure and planning promises that were made have been substantially acted on, without a published measure of what they achieved. Our verdict is lacks context.