Centre clears 11 Industrial Corridors

The Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry has approved the development of eleven industrial corridors in four phases as part of a national master plan for providing multimodal connectivity to economic zones. Two of these corridors link the city — Hyderabad-Nagpur and Delhi-Nagpur. While the central government has decided to develop an industrial township in Zaheerabad, Telangana under Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial Corridor project, detailed plans are being worked out for the Delhi-Nagpur Industrial Corridor.

The Centre is building various industrial corridors as part of National Industrial Corridor Program, which is aimed at the development of greenfield industrial cities in India to compete with the best manufacturing and investment destinations in the world. National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) was set up for the unified development of industrial corridors in the country. Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) is the first industrial corridor to be implemented in the country wherein substantial progress has been made. The industrial corridors program aims to provide multimodal connectivity with a complete plug and play infrastructure till the plot level along with building resilient and sustainable future-ready cities. President of Vidarbha Economic Development Council (VED), Shiv Kumar Rao, said that the Hyderabad-Nagpur Industrial Corridor has been proposed by Telangana government to which central government had suggested some changes, which have been readily carried out by the state government. Now VED is trying to coordinate with Telangana government and centre for linking the corridor with Samruddhi Mahamarg so that it can benefit Visarbha region.