GS3 · Logistics

LEAPS 2025 launched on PM GatiShakti’s 4th anniversary

Battle IAS current affairs title card: LEAPS 2025 launched on PM GatiShakti's 4th anniversary (GS3 · Logistics, 13 October 2025)

What happened

  • The Commerce Minister launched LEAPS 2025 (Logistics Excellence, Advancement and Performance Shield) on PM GatiShakti’s fourth anniversary [PIB].
  • It benchmarks logistics players, from freight operators to startups, and stresses green logistics [PIB].

Background

  • LEAPS aligns with the National Logistics Policy and PM GatiShakti [PIB].

Why it matters

  • High logistics cost hurts exports; benchmarking pushes best practices.

How to use this in Mains

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

  1. As per PIB (2025-10-13): the Commerce Minister launched LEAPS 2025 (Logistics Excellence, Advancement and Performance Shield) on PM GatiShakti's fourth anniversary.
  2. High logistics cost hurts exports; benchmarking pushes best practices.
Quotable data point

The Commerce Minister launched LEAPS 2025 (Logistics Excellence, Advancement and Performance Shield) on PM GatiShakti's fourth anniversary.

PIB: Commerce: LEAPS 2025, 13 Oct 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: NLP, GatiShakti.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

LEAPS is run by

Answer (a) & explanation

PIB.

Practice · UPSC

Launched on the anniversary of

Answer (a) & explanation

PIB.

Practice · UPSC

Which anniversary?

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

Go deeper

Official source: PIB: Commerce: LEAPS 2025, 13 Oct 2025

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