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LEADS 2025, Logistics Data Bank 2.0 and first logistics cost estimate

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: LEADS 2025, Logistics Data Bank 2.0 and first logistics cost estimate (GS3 · Logistics, 20 September 2025)

What happened

  • Piyush Goyal launched LEADS 2025 to benchmark logistics across States and UTs, and LDB 2.0, which tracks export containers on the high seas with multimodal visibility [PIB].
  • A report on Assessment of Logistics Cost in India gives the first scientific estimate using a hybrid of secondary data and surveys, as mandated by NLP 2022 [PIB].

Background

  • LDB 2.0 is built by NICDC Logistics Data Services [PIB].

Why it matters

  • A credible cost number is needed before any cost-reduction target can be tracked.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Infrastructure: energy, ports, roads, airports, railways; investment models

  1. As per PIB (2025-09-20): piyush Goyal launched LEADS 2025 to benchmark logistics across States and UTs, and LDB 2.0, which tracks export containers on the high seas with multimodal visibility.
  2. A credible cost number is needed before any cost-reduction target can be tracked.
Quotable data point

A report on Assessment of Logistics Cost in India gives the first scientific estimate using a hybrid of secondary data and surveys, as mandated by NLP 2022.

PIB: LEADS 2025 launched, 20 Sep 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: LEADS, LDB.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

LEADS benchmarks logistics across

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

Practice · UPSC

LDB 2.0 is developed by

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

Go deeper

ExplainerInfrastructure in India: Importance, Financing, PPP Models, National Infrastructure Pipeline and PM Gati Shakti (UPSC Notes + PYQs)

Official source: PIB: LEADS 2025 launched, 20 Sep 2025

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