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PM-Gati Shakti: A Case Study of

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SujayKumar Reddy M and Gopakumar G

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Keywords: Machine Learning; Time-Series Forecasting; Demand Forecasting; PM Gati-Shakti; Ministry of

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Case Report
PM-Gati Shakti: A Case Study of Demand Forecasting
SujayKumar Reddy M 1, * and GopaKumar G 2
1 Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore
2 Lead Contact
* Correspondence: [email protected]

Abstract: PM-Gati-Shakti Initiative, integration of ministries, including railways, ports, waterways,

logistic infrastructure, mass transport, airports, and roads. Aimed at enhancing connectivity and
bolstering the competitiveness of Indian businesses, the initiative focuses on six pivotal pillars known
as "Connectivity for Productivity": comprehensiveness, prioritization, optimization, synchronization,
analytical, and dynamic. In this study, we explore the application of these pillars to address the
problem of "Maximum Demand Forecasting in Delhi." Electricity forecasting plays a very significant
role in the power grid as it is required to maintain a balance between supply and load demand at all
times, to provide a quality electricity supply, for Financial planning, generation reserve, and many
more. Forecasting helps not only in Production Planning but also in Scheduling like Import / Export
which is very often in India and mostly required by the rural areas and North Eastern Regions of
India. As Electrical Forecasting includes many factors which cannot be detected by the models out
there, We use Classical Forecasting Techniques to extract the seasonal patterns from the daily data
of Maximum Demand for the Union Territory Delhi. This research contributes to the power supply
industry by helping to reduce the occurrence of disasters such as blackouts, power cuts, and increased
tariffs imposed by regulatory commissions. The forecasting techniques can also help in reducing OD
and UD of Power for different regions. We use the Data provided by a department from the Ministry
of Power and use different forecast models including Seasonal forecasts for daily data.

Keywords: machine learning; time-series forecasting; demand forecasting; PM gati-shakti; ministry

of power; Delhi

Introduction
The Indian Energy GRID is maintained by POWERGRID [18] which has the objectives of running
the GRID efficiently and installing transmission lines etc... and the second one is the National Load
Dispatch Center (NLDC) [14] which concentrates on Supervision over the Regional Load Dispatch
Centres, Scheduling and dispatch of electricity over inter-regional links in accordance with grid
standards specified by the Authority and grid code specified by Central Commission in coordination
with Regional Load Dispatch Centres, Monitoring of operations and grid security of the National Grid,
etc... This research mainly focusses on this NLDC which is a Division of Ministry of Power.
Figure 1 [15] describes the Yearly Installed Power Capacity in Delhi. The highest installed Capacity
was 8,346.72 MW in Fiscal year 2016. which is responsible for sending the energy from Stations to
sub-stations and to discuss and then to homes, industries, commercials, etc... As of 21-06-2023 The
installed Capacity Sector-wise data [16] gives an overview of what type of Thermal Plants which are
present in Delhi and also what types of Energy resources are present in Delhi. There are 11 Thermal
Stations in Delhi with 4 400KV Substations and 42 200 KV Substations [17].

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Figure 1. Installed Capacity.

Delhi Yearly Power Statistics

To further Analyse Delhi’s Power, this paper uses the [15] RBI’s handbook contains yearly
state-wise data to analyze the Delhi v/s Whole India’s data. Figure 2(a) gives Delhi v/s whole India’s
Statewise Per-capita of Power raises to 1974.4 Kilo-Watt Hour in Delhi in 2018-2019 and in India 1115.3
Kilo-Watt Hours in 2021-2022. Figure 2(b) gives an Availability of Power at Delhi raises to 3308 net
Crore Units in 2019-2020 and 137402 net crore units in 2021-2022 for All India, Figure 2(c) gives the
Total Installed Capacity of RES Power raises to 245 Mega Watt at 2021 for Delhi and 94434 MegaWatt
at 2021 for all India. Figure 2(d) depicts the Power Requirement for Delhi has the maximum reading at
3309 net crore units in 2019-2020 and for all of India 137981 net crore units in 2021-2022.
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Figure 2. Statistics on the Delhi’s Power.

Relation to Demand Forecasting

The correlation between these variables with the Consumption of Electricity of Delhi [19] Now, as
we speak Consumption by the consumers is based on the Maximum Demand which has been recorded
per day in the National Load Dispatch Center (NLDC) As all these entities are highly correlated
we push our limits to only use univariant analysis of Maximum Demand attained in the Daily data
produced by the Delhi Consumers.

PM-Gati Scheme Initiative

Statistically speaking, many papers have demonstrated that Economic Factors are valuable data
for Maximum Demand Forecasting. Although these findings have been successful, we present a
baseline model focusing solely on one variable to capture the Auto-Correlations between days, weeks,
months, and even years. This approach aims to create baseline performance models due to Seasonal
Dependence. To achieve this, we employ various pre-processing techniques and utilize a selection of
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Machine Learning and Time Series Forecasting models that have been previously applied to create our
Baseline model.
The "Integration of Ministries" initiative combines seven drivers: railways, ports, waterways,
logistic infrastructure, mass transport, airports, and roads. The primary goal is to enhance connectivity
and boost the competitiveness of Indian businesses. This integration is known as "Gati-Shakti," and it
rests on six pillars of Connectivity for Productivity.

1. Comprehensiveness
2. Prioritization
3. Optimization
4. Synchronization
5. Analytical
6. Dynamic

Given these Pillars, we try to formalize and study the use cases which are provided for this
problem Statement, "Maximum Demand Forecasting in Delhi", Here’s a case study to understand ...
Let us say that the Ministry of Steel[20] created an initiative to increase domestic production
that would lower dependence on imported Steel and would result in considerable savings of foreign
exchange. As this seems reasonable, there are some pros and cons related to this one being less Foreign
Exchange obviously and a con being Increased Electricity Consumption. Data explains from the
Ministry of Coal to the Ministry of Power to increase the installed Capacity or Power Generation can
be captured through Comprehensiveness.
As there’s an increase in demand for Electricity, the Ministry of Power tries to solve this problem
but as the transparency of Ministries in PM-Gati-Shakti provides to consolidate the increase in demand
like the Ministry of Railways tries to optimize routes on weekends and majorly metro trains which
are in Delhi can be optimized to consolidate this increase in demand which can be captured through
Prioritization, Optimization while maintaining a Holistic Approach. Note that this is a scenario that
can be predicted but there will be many scenarios as possible in-order to facilitate the Maximum
Demand Forecasting.

Related Work
This Section consists of Background analysis a.k.a Literature review of the Demand Forecasting
Techniques adopted and Analyzing the recent reports by the Ministries of Government. This section
focuses on many different attributes which are needed to be considered by the previous research done
by the individuals.

Deep Learning
Figure 3 (a) gives us a clear understanding of a number of Deep Learning papers which are
mostly based on Indian Authors published in IEEE. Anil et al [1] use the Levenberg-Marquardt back
propagation algorithm ANN on the day ahead Short term load Forecasting on the state of Uttar
Pradesh trained on hourly data with the MAPE score of average MAPE 3.05, This work suggests using
the ANN model to check with our dataset too. Navneet et al [2] use the New Delhi ADEL data to
forecast the load by using different Neural Network Architectures in which ELMANN Neural Network
Architecture has given good accuracy. Dharmoju et al [3] provided a sector of Residental buildings by
the United States Dataset by using LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) model for monthly forecasting.
Shaswat et al [4] use a Temporal Fusion Architecture to capture the interactions which are scaled
between 0 and 1 for daily data which achieves 4.15% more than the existing models and this is for the
whole of India which is not region specific. Saravanan et al [5] use economic factors like GDP, national
income, consumer price index, etc.. with that they used Principle component Analysis followed by
ANN which gives the highest accuracy of MAPE score of 0.43. Vishnu et al [6] concentrate on the work
on Renewable Energy Resources and devised two major LSTM (Long Short Term Memory) models.
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Figure 3. Analysis of Literature Survey Framework.

Machine Learning
Figure 3 (b) gives us a clear understanding of a number of Machine Learning papers and their
analysis in all the papers (as ids). Christos et al [7] which also forecasts the Peak Demand in the
electrical sector of the Producers side. They used a Netherland dataset from 3 regions and analyzes
comparatively with all the existing Forecasting methods such as ARIMA, Ridge, and Lasso Regression
and the results suggested that the Bi-directional LSTM. Saravanan et al [8] formalize a set of 64 if-else
statements and the variables include per-capita GDP, population, and Import/Export and they have
achieved the MAPE of 2.3. Mannish et al [9] devised an Ensemble Approach for the DISCOMs in
the region Delhi for the Post Covid Scenario and their proposed model includes combining XGBoost,
LightGBM, and CatBoost algorithms which achieved an average MAPE of 5.0. Banga et al [10]
compared many Machine Learning Algorithms for the dataset which considers 29 attributes and the
Facebook Prophet model outscores daily and hourly datasets with MAPE scores of 0.4 and 0.2.

Regression Based Learning

Figure 3 (c) gives us a clear understanding of a number of Regression papers or Auto
Regression papers compared with all the papers (as ids). note these papers are based completely
on uni-variant/single-variant datasets. Carlos et al [11] analyzed a time series dataset for Brazilian
Electricity Demand Forecasting and divides Brazil into 2 regions and forecasts the Electricity demand
according by using ARIMA models. Kakoli et al [12] forecasted the electricity demand for the state
Assam in the Northeast Region and the results suggest that to use the Seasonal ARIMA model with
the formula given below SARIMA(0,1,1)(0,1,1,7) with the MAPE of 10.7. Srinivasa et al [13] provided a
forecasting method that is formulated monthly for the whole of India without considering the states
and regions. It has been found that the MSARIMA model outperforms CEA forecasts in both in-sample
static and out-of-sample dynamic forecast horizons in all five regional grids in India.

Summary of Literature Survey

Clusters Paper Citations
Machine Learning [7–10]
Deep Learning [1–6]
Auto-Regressive Models [11–13]
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Data Overview
The Features of the data which has been provided below

1. Date (DD/MM/YYYY)
2. Max.Demand met during the day (MW)
3. Shortage during maximum Demand (MW)
4. Energy Met (MU)
5. Drawal Schedule (MU)
6. OD(+)/UD(-) (MU)
7. Max OD (MW)
8. Energy Shortage (MU)

Energy Shortage (MU) feature is not available every day. This feature is recorded from 2017-05-09
as per the reports generated by the PSP by POSOCO. The data is available here [21]. This paper focuses
on Univariant Analysis not to make it as complex, but to consider Max Demand met during the day
(MW) as a single column.
As the column "Max Demand met During the day" is the major feature that we consider. The data
starts from 2013-04-01 to 2023-05-31 which consists of 3713 days but the data points only consist of
3640 with the missing data we use the Imputation Techniques dataset and Non-Imputation Techniques
dataset (no_null).
For Imputation Techniques, this paper considers Mean, Median, Mode, and Linear Interpolation
Imputation data that has been imputed. So, as combined this generates 5 datasets where the models
are applied to compare the performance of which Imputation is good.
Table 1 depicts the datasets which are created from the univariant data taken from one of the
features in the dataset. ("Max. Demand met during the day (MW) "). As explained in the Methodology
section the dataset is divided into train and test to take the MAPE score. For ARIMA models we
generate train MAPE and test MAPE to check the overfitting criteria also with AIC, BIC, log(p), etc...

Table 1. Datasets names which are created from the reports.

1 dropna-dataset
2 mean Imputation dataset
3 median Imputation dataset
4 mode Imputation dataset
5 linear-Interpolation Imputation dataset

Forecasting Models
This paper develops a Time series forecasting model ARIMA which is known to be an
Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average. the models which include AR, MA and ARMA, and
ARIMA, and develop a model list from these regression types using the parameters. The major
parameters included in the arima model are p, q, and d where p is the parameter for Auto-regressive
co-efficient which says about how many days have the co-relation between today’s date.
The real-world data tends to be always non-Stationary. A signal is said to be stationary if its
statistical properties like mean, standard deviation, trend, etc... doesn’t change over time. To check if
the time series is stationary or not, we use Augmented-Dickey Fuller Test where the null hypothesis is
"the time series contains a unit root and is non-stationary". The results of the Augmented Dickey-Fuller
Test for each of the Imputation datasets are given in the below sections.

Datasets Analysis and ADF test results

The ADF test for no-imputation dataset test-statistic = -5.45 p-value = 2.55e-06 for no-imputation
dataset for first difference to try to change the time-series to stationary. test-statistic = -10.403 p-value
= 1.88e-18 for Second Difference, which is not suggested as the p-value is zero (over-differencing)
test-statistic = -21.152 p-value = 0.0
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The ADF test for Mean imputation dataset test-statistic = -5.393 p-value = 3.49e-06 for first
difference to try to change the time-series to stationary. test-statistic = -10.073 p-value = 1.23e-17 for
Second Difference, which is not suggested as the p-value is zero (over-differencing) test-statistic =
-21.617 p-value = 0.0
The ADF test for Median imputation dataset test-statistic = -5.363 p-value = 4.042e-06, for first
difference to try to change the time-series to stationary. test-statistic = -10.075 p-value = 1.223e-17 for
Second Difference, which is not suggested as the p-value is zero (over-differencing) test-statistic =
-21.686 p-value = 0.0
The ADF test for Mode imputation dataset test-statistic = -5.227 p-value = 7.73e-06 for first
difference to try to change the time-series to stationary. test-statistic = -10.258 p-value = 4.31e-18 for
Second Difference, which is not suggested as the p-value is zero (over-differencing) test-statistic =
-22.121 p-value = 0.0
The ADF test for Linear Interpolation imputation dataset test-statistic = -5.390 p-value = 3.53e-06
for first difference to try to change the time-series to stationary test-statistic = -10.072 p-value = 1.24e-17
for Second Difference, which is not suggested as the p-value is zero (over-differencing) test-statistic =
-21.44 p-value = 0.0

Auto Regression and Moving Average model

In time series forecasting, the autoregressive moving average model of order ( p, q), denoted as
ARMA(p, q), is a popular approach. The ARMA(p, q) model combines the autoregressive (AR) model
of order p and the moving average (MA) model of order q. The ARMA(p, q) model assumes that the
value of the time series at a given point is linearly dependent on the previous p values of the series
and the previous q error terms. The formula for the ARMA(p, q) model is as follows:

Xt = c + φ1 Xt−1 + φ2 Xt−2 + . . . + φ p Xt− p + θ1 ε t−1 + θ2 ε t−2 + . . . + θq ε t−q + ε t

In this formula:

• Xt represents the value of the time series at time t.

• c is the intercept or constant term.
• φ1 , φ2 , . . . , φ p are the coefficients of the autoregressive terms that capture the relationship between
the current and previous values.
• Xt−1 , Xt−2 , . . . , Xt− p represent the lagged values of the time series.
• θ1 , θ2 , . . . , θq are the coefficients of the moving average terms that capture the relationship between
the current value and the previous error terms.
• ε t−1 , ε t−2 , . . . , ε t−q represent the lagged error terms of the time series.
• ε t is the error term at time t, which represents the random fluctuations or noise in the series.

To estimate the parameters (φ1 , φ2 , . . . , φ p , θ1 , θ2 , . . . , θq ) and the intercept (c) of the ARMA(p, q)
model, various estimation techniques can be used, such as maximum likelihood estimation.
Once the parameters are estimated, the ARMA(p, q) model can be used for forecasting by
substituting the lagged values and lagged error terms of the time series into the formula to predict
future values.
Note that the ARMA(p, q) model assumes stationarity of the time series, and it is a flexible model
that can capture both autoregressive and moving average components in the data.

Seasonal Auto-Regressive Models

The Seasonal Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (SARIMA) model is a time series
forecasting model that extends the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) model to
account for seasonality. SARIMA combines the components of ARIMA with seasonal differencing and
seasonal autoregressive and moving average terms.
The SARIMA(p, d, q)(P, D, Q, s) model is defined by the following equations:
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Autoregressive (AR) component: AR(p): Yt = φ1 Yt−1 + φ2 Yt−2 + . . . + φ p Yt− p + ε t

Integrated (I) component: I(d): Yt′ = (1 − B)d Yt , where B is the backshift operator (BYt = Yt−1 )
Moving Average (MA) component: MA(q): Yt = θ1 ε t−1 + θ2 ε t−2 + . . . + θq ε t−q + ε t
Seasonal Autoregressive (SAR) component: SAR(P): Yt = Φ1 Yt−s + Φ2 Yt−2s + . . . + Φ P Yt− Ps + ε t
Seasonal Moving Average (SMA) component: SMA(Q): Yt = Θ1 ε t−s + Θ2 ε t−2s + . . . + ΘQ ε t−Qs +
εt
where: Yt is the observed time series at time t ε t is the error term (also known as the residual) at
time t p, d, q are the non-seasonal AR, I, MA orders, respectively P, D, Q are the seasonal SAR, I, SMA
orders, respectively s is the seasonal period or frequency (e.g., 12 for monthly data, 4 for quarterly data,
etc.) φ1 , φ2 , . . . , φ p are the non-seasonal autoregressive coefficients θ1 , θ2 , . . . , θq are the non-seasonal
moving average coefficients Φ1 , Φ2 , . . . , Φ P are the seasonal autoregressive coefficients Θ1 , Θ2 , . . . , ΘQ
are the seasonal moving average coefficients

Results and Conclusion

Tables 1–11 depicts the results of the Classical Time-series Forecasting methods.
SARIMA(0,0,0)(6,1,3,7) is the best model which is provided by the MAPE scores of the test
data. As the Base models concluded we try to integrate more data into the PM Gati-Shakti Scheme to
validate the case study given in the section of Introduction. The future work also focuses on using
Reinforcement Learning for model selection for much larger data with integrated ministries in the
Union Territory of Delhi.

Table 2. ARIMA Model Comparison Results for dropna.

Models Order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

AR/MA models 1,0,0 19.483 26.125 50534.716 50553.290
2,0,0 19.516 26.126 50534.362 50559.127
1,1,0 21.903 26.602 50575.065 50587.447
1,2,0 90.594 27.274 52837.437 52829.454
0,0,1 16.617 21.619 56254.968 56273.542
0,1,1 21.811 26.594 50572.554 50584.936
0,2,1 21.9037 26.602 50578.459 50590.841
ARMA models 8,0,8 18.157 26.332 50067.375 50178.816
8,1,8 18.814 26.453 50148.885 50254.131
9,0,7 18.201 26.226 50067.729 50179.170
9,1,7 18.332 26.453 50055.038 50160.283
8,0,9 18.135 26.280 50068.705 50186.337
8,1,9 18.274 26.464 50059.330 50170.766
auto-arima 5,1,3 18.844 26.454 50190.242 50245.961
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Table 3. ARIMA Model Comparison Results for Mean Imputation.

Models Order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

AR/MA models (1, 0, 0) 19.186 25.749 52184.042 52202.676
(2, 0, 0) 19.352 25.756 52144.192 52169.037
(1, 1, 0) 21.628 26.276 52188.319 52200.741
(1, 2, 0) 86.037 27.046 54529.566 54542.004
(0, 0, 1) 16.616 21.290 57600.735 57619.368
(0, 1, 1) 21.322 26.248 52171.044 52183.466
(0, 2, 1) 21.628 26.276 52243.646 52256.067
ARMA models (9, 0, 8) 18.266 26.027 51635.298 51753.311
(9, 1, 8) 18.069 26.135 51687.745 51799.541
(8, 0, 9) 18.400 25.965 51663.391 51781.404
(8, 1, 9) 18.366 26.173 51695.921 51807.718
(8, 0, 8) 18.518 25.977 51670.186 51781.988
(8, 1, 8) 18.324 26.093 51637.395 51742.981
auto-arima (5, 1, 3) 18.563 26.085 51820.469 51876.368

Table 4. ARIMA model Comparison Results for Median Imputation.

Models Order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

AR/MA models 1,0,0 19.203 25.740 52180.550 52199.184
2,0,0 19.363 25.748 52142.980 52167.825
1,1,0 21.636 26.268 52187.390 52199.812
1,2,0 86.201 27.038 54527.913 54540.351
0,0,1 16.646 21.271 57600.941 57619.575
0,1,1 21.336 26.241 52170.583 52183.005
0,2,1 21.636 26.268 52239.944 52252.365
ARMA models 9,0,8 18.288 26.032 51635.740 51753.753
9,1,8 18.115 26.121 51681.885 51793.682
8,0,8 18.506 25.958 51674.400 51786.202
8,1,8 18.421 26.104 51641.077 51746.663
8,0,9 18.407 25.939 51668.680 51786.693
8,1,9 18.502 26.152 51701.538 51813.335
auto-arima 5,1,3 18.676 26.098 51805.777 51861.675

Table 5. ARIMA model Comparison Results for Median Imputation.

Models Order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

AR/MA models 1,0,0 19.025 25.966 52851.514 52870.148
2,0,0 19.256 25.977 52780.739 52805.583
1,1,0 21.531 26.566 52831.433 52843.854
1,2,0 85.088 27.498 55261.639 55274.078
0,0,1 16.796 21.587 57849.604 57868.238
0,1,1 21.013 26.513 52795.815 52808.237
0,2,1 21.531 26.566 52925.747 52938.168
ARMA models 9,0,8 18.004 26.273 52357.307 52475.320
9,1,8 22.428 26.522 52691.287 52803.084
9,0,9 18.237 26.157 52376.970 52501.194
9,1,9 16.651 26.512 52356.583 52474.591
8,0,9 18.343 26.220 52412.001 52530.014
8,1,9 18.698 26.342 52578.576 52690.373
auto-arima 3,1,4 18.401 26.340 52506.970 52562.869
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Table 6. ARIMA model Comparison Results for Linear Interpolation Imputation.

Models Order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

AR/MA models 1,0,0 19.552 26.051 51429.997 51448.631
2,0,0 19.573 26.051 51430.941 51455.786
1,1,0 21.936 26.516 51472.149 51484.571
1,2,0 90.903 27.171 53740.953 53753.391
0,0,1 16.678 21.549 57337.414 57356.048
0,1,1 21.870 26.510 51470.598 51483.020
0,2,1 21.936 26.516 51473.203 51485.624
ARMA models 8,0,8 18.409 26.271 50801.251 50913.053
8,1,8 18.683 26.385 50838.995 50944.581
9,0,8 18.223 26.175 50814.366 50932.379
9,1,8 18.440 26.385 50807.144 50918.941
9,0,7 18.157 26.114 50836.848 50948.650
9,1,7 19.432 26.363 50840.746 50946.332
auto-arima 5,1,4 19.114 26.389 51004.208 51066.318

Table 7. SARIMA model Comparison Results for dropna.

order Seasonal-order train_MAPE test_MAPE AIC BIC

(1, 0, 0) (3,0,6,7) 26.673 20.554 50233.507 50301.610
(0,0,0) (1,0,1,7) 26.301 17.40 54957.193 54975.766
(0,0,0) (1,1,1,7) 26.461 16.882 54823.939 54842.507
(0,0,0) (3,0,6,7) 25.505 15.670 54736.140 54798.052
(0,0,0) (3,1,6,7) 26.826 15.854 54735.359 54797.251

Table 8. SARIMA model Comparison Results for mean Imputation.

order Seasonal-order train_MAPE test_MAPE AIC BIC

(1, 0, 0) (6,0,2,7) 25.884 17.775 51748.896 51811.008
(0,0,0) (1,0,1,7) 25.973 17.382 56160.584 56179.218
(0,0,0) (1,1,1,7) 26.141 16.831 56026.752 56045.380
(0,0,0) (6,0,2,7) 25.355 15.398 55932.485 55988.386
(0,0,0) (6,1,2,7) 26.404 16.173 55954.966 56010.850

Table 9. SARIMA model Comparison Results for Median Imputation.

order Seasonal-order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

(1, 0, 0) (3,0,6,7) 20.491 26.316 51825.927 51894.250
(0,0,0) (1,0,1,7) 17.379 25.965 56152.138 56170.772
(0,0,0) (1,1,1,7) 16.830 26.132 56018.390 56037.018
(0,0,0) (3,0,6,7) 15.717 25.119 55924.073 55986.185
(0,0,0) (3,1,6,7) 15.950 26.439 55951.882 56013.975

Table 10. SARIMA model Comparison Results for Mode Imputation.

order Seasonal-order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

(1, 0, 0) (3,0,6,7) 20.554 26.673 50233.507 50301.610
(0,0,0) (1,0,1,7) 17.407 26.301 54957.193 54975.766
(0,0,0) (1,1,1,7) 16.882 26.461 54823.939 54842.507
(0,0,0) (3,0,6,7) 15.670 25.505 54736.140 54798.052
(0,0,0) (3,1,6,7) 15.854 26.826 54735.359 54797.251
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Table 11. SARIMA Model Comparison Results for Linear Interpolation Imputation.

order Seasonal-order test_MAPE train_MAPE AIC BIC

(1, 0, 0) (6, 0, 3, 7) 19.905 26.556 50917.697 50986.020
(0, 0, 0) (1, 0, 1, 7) 17.401 26.212 55984.215 56002.849
(0, 0, 0) (1, 1, 1, 7) 16.871 26.372 55851.605 55870.233
(0, 0, 0) (6, 0, 3, 7) 15.304 26.425 55773.403 55835.515
(0, 0, 0) (6, 1, 3, 7) 15.210 26.442 55627.806 55689.899

In conclusion, our study highlights the importance of integrating more data into the PM
Gati-Shakti Scheme in order to validate the findings presented in the Introduction section. The base
models provide a preliminary understanding of the scheme’s potential, but further data incorporation
is crucial for robust conclusions. By expanding the scope of our analysis to encompass a wider range
of variables and factors, we can enhance the accuracy and reliability of the case study.
Furthermore, our future work will focus on employing Reinforcement Learning techniques
for model selection. This approach is particularly relevant when dealing with a larger dataset that
integrates ministries within the Union Territory of Delhi. Reinforcement Learning algorithms can
effectively evaluate and select the most suitable models by considering the complex interactions and
dependencies between different variables. By leveraging the power of machine learning and advanced
analytics, we can make informed decisions that lead to better outcomes and enhanced efficiency within
the PM Gati-Shakti Scheme.
In summary, our research emphasizes the need for data integration and the application of
Reinforcement Learning in the context of the PM Gati-Shakti Scheme. These steps will contribute
to a more comprehensive understanding of the scheme’s impact and enable evidence-based
decision-making for the integration of ministries in the Union Territory of Delhi. By continuously
improving our analytical approaches, we can enhance the effectiveness of the scheme and drive
positive socio-economic outcomes.

Acknowledgments: This project was supported by National Institute of Technology, Calicut a center of
PM-Gati-Shakti Scheme initiated by National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

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