OREANDA-NEWS. The Government of India has conceptualized the following Industrial/ Economic Corridors in the country:

1) Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) which covers the States of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra

2) Bengaluru- Mumbai Economic Corridor (BMEC) which covers the States of Karnataka and Maharashtra

3) Chennai-Bengaluru Industrial Corridor (CBIC) which covers the States of Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

4) Visakhapatnam-Chennai Industrial Corridor (VCIC) which covers the States of Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu

5) Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC) which covers the seven States namely Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

BMEC, VCIC and AKIC are in the initial stages of implementation whereas master planning for all the three nodes in CBIC and all nodes except for “Dadri Noida Ghaziabad” Investment region under DMIC have been completed. seven industrial cities have been taken up for development in the first phase of the DMIC project such as Ahmedabad-Dholera Investment Region in Gujarat; Manesar-Bawal Investment region in Haryana; Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment region in Uttar Pradesh; Khushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana Investment region in Rajasthan; Shendra Bidkin Investment region in Maharashtra; Dighi Port Industrial area in Maharashtra; Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow Investment region in Madhya Pradesh. Various trunk infrastructure projects like development of roads and utilities, drainage, sewage, potable water, industrial water, water treatment & recycling, Sewage Treatment Plant, Common Effluent Treatment Plant, ICT etc. are being developed under DMIC,. The tender documents for construction of trunk infrastructure of Integrated Industrial Township “Vikram Udyogpuri” near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh have already been issued. The tender documents for trunk infrastructure in Dholera, Shendra-Bidkin Industrial area & Integrated Industrial Township have also been proposed after detailed master planning and preliminary engineering. Infrastructure for creation of the industries in the other designated nodes in the region have already been identified and all of them are at different stages of implementation.

This information was given by the Minister of State (Independent Charge) in the Ministry of Commerce & Industry Smt. Nirmala Sitharaman in a written reply in Rajya Sabha today.