Bharatiya Janata Party · Lok Sabha General Election 2024
Last updated 8 Jul 2026
“We will revamp the legal framework to enable faster growth of our Shipping industry to become globally competitive.”
The legal framework for shipping is being modernised: new laws including the Merchant Shipping/Coastal Shipping legislation and the Bills of Lading Act, 2025 have been enacted to replace colonial-era statutes, simplify registration and promote Indian-flagged tonnage and coastal shipping, complemented by the enhanced Shipbuilding Financial Assistance Policy and the Maritime Amrit Kaal Vision. These reforms support a homegrown, globally competitive shipping industry, though full impact is still building. Partial. (Note: complements the shipbuilding-promotion commitment in the Global Manufacturing Hub section; this entry reflects the shipping-industry legal-framework framing.)
We will transform airports into multi-modal hubs with integrated transit facilities such as buses, metro and rapid rail among others by effective use of PM Gatishakti National Master Plan.
We will bring a commercial aircraft manufacturing ecosystem to Bharat. For this we will design a Policy for Aerospace Manufacturing in the country and try to develop our own passenger aircraft. We will strengthen the civil aviation ecosystem by encouraging Maintenance, Repairs and Overhaul activities as well as Aircraft Financing and Leasing Activities institutions through comprehensive government support programs under the Make in India initiative.
We will introduce the Amrit Kaal Civil Aviation Master Plan to transform our airports into regional international hubs, providing single-point connectivity to designated regions worldwide, with the vision to position Bharat as the leading aviation ecosystem of South Asia.
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