The Minister for Commerce and Industry also launched the Logistics Ease Across Different States (LEADS) 2022 survey report.
About LEADS
- The LEADS is an indigenous data-driven index to assess logistics infrastructure, services, and human resources across all 36 States and UTs.
- By engaging with various end-user stakeholders, the LEADS acts as a feedback mechanism on the existing logistic capacities and draws recommendations for further improvement.
- The LEADS further uses the feedback evaluation to classify states on the scale of logistics ease currently present among them.
About LEADS 2022
- The LEADS 2022 has garnered more than 6500 responses from more than 2100 respondents across the country.
- Unlike the previous versions of LEADS which were based on ranking systems for all states, LEADS 2022 has adopted a classification-based grading.
- States have been now classified under four categories–coastal states, hinterland/landlocked states, north-eastern states, and Union Territories.
- Three performance categories namely, Achievers: States/UTs achieving 90% or more percentage, Fast Movers: States/UTs achieving percentage scores between 80% to 90%, and Aspirers: States/UTs achieving percentage scores below 80% have been made.
- The LEADS 2022 survey report would assist PM GatiShakti National Master Plan (PMGS-NMP) and National Logistics Policy (NLP) to perform a network mapping of logistics infrastructure, services, and regulatory environment enabling State Governments to identify and fill the gaps and achieve data-driven multimodal connectivity.
- LEADS continues to act as a guiding & bridging mechanism for the identification of interventions enhancing logistics efficiency at State/UTs.
