Ease of Doing Business resonates – Why Gadkari’s claims on Logistics Costs ambition are reasonable?
Mr. Gadkari’s Claim on the Reduction in Logistics Costs is Reasonable, as it has already reached 10%.
Source: EODB NEWS | Published: 21st August 2025
Every policy, process, technology, product, and service across India’s 30 microeconomic sectors that boosts the reduction of logistics costs from 14% to single digits now has a dedicated facilitation corner facilitated by Ease of Doing Business. By featuring these interventions, the facilitation corner ensures visibility, credibility, and continuity for projects that align with India’s national growth priorities. In this month of August, this corner was reported in the Cargo NXT Insights and it notes that India’s logistics cost has already reduced to nearly 10% of GDP.
It further emphasises that the next phase of progress requires continued facilitation and support. Both the emerging tech piloting wing, Ease of Doing Business (Private) and its Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (Government Wing) are actively working through different strategies and interventions like decarbonisation, digitalisation, and geospatialisation of the logistics sector to achieve the remaining reduction goals envisioned in the National Masterplan.
The statement of the Union Minister of Road Transport and Highways is backed by extensive groundwork, policy reforms, and facilitations such as decarbonisation, digitalisation, and geospatialisation of logistics sector. The results of these efforts will unfold sooner than expected, and surprising India with the ambitious goals articulated by Shri Nitin Gadkari becoming a reality driving a continuous reduction of logistics costs from 14% towards entering single digits.
– ABHIJEET SINHA, NATIONAL PROGRAM DIRECTOR,
EASE OF DOING BUSINESS
India’s Logistics Cost Will Drop To Single Digits By 2026, Says Nitin Gadkari; To Boost Competitiveness – Here’s How Much It Is In China, America
Source: TOI | Published: 17 August
Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari on Sunday said that India’s logistics cost will come down to single digits by the end of 2026, making the country more competitive in global trade.
“I want to assure the Prime Minister and all of you that before the end of 2026, the logistics cost of our country will come in the single digits, which will be very important for our exports. We will become even more competitive,” Gadkari said while addressing an event in New Delhi.
Currently, India’s logistics cost stands at around 14-16%, compared to 8% in China and 12% in the US and Europe, he added.
The minister made these remarks at an event where Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated two major National Highway projects worth nearly Rs 11,000 crore, the Delhi section of the Dwarka Expressway and the Urban Extension Road-II (UER-II). The 10.1 km Delhi section of the Dwarka Expressway, built at a cost of Rs 5,360 crore, will provide multi-modal connectivity to Yashobhoomi Convention Centre, DMRC’s Blue and Orange lines, the upcoming Bijwasan railway station, and the Dwarka cluster bus depot.
Earlier, in March 2024, the prime minister inaugurated the Haryana section of the same expressway, PM Modi also inaugurated the Alipur–Dichaon Kalan stretch of UER-II along with new links to Bahadurgarh and Sonipat. Developed at a cost of Rs 5,580 crore, this corridor is expected to ease traffic on Delhi’s Inner and Outer Ring Roads and key junctions like Mukarba Chowk, Dhaula Kuan, and NH-09, while boosting industrial connectivity in NCR.
With these projects, “the people of Delhi NCR will get great relief from traffic jams. If I say that the problem of 50 per cent traffic jam in Delhi will be reduced due to these highways, I think it will not be surprising,” Gadkari noted.
