Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (dmic)
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC)
The Government of India (GoI) is establishing a Dedicated Freight Corridor between Delhi and Mumbai, with terminals at Dadri in the National Capital Region of Delhi and Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Mumbai. The Corridor, covering a length of around 1500 kilometers, will pass through the states of Uttar Pradesh, National Capital Territory of Delhi, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The Dedicated Freight Corridor is expected to offer high-speed connectivity for high axle load wagons through high power locomotives.
In order to tap the immense opportunities likely to be thrown open by the Corridor, a band of 150 to 200 kilometers around both its sides, is being developed as the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The vision for the development of DMIC is to create base in this band with globally competitive environment and state-of-the-art infrastructure to activate regional commerce and enhance foreign investments. Government of India has incorporated a Special Purpose Vehicle, Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), in January 2008, to coordinate DMIC Project Development, Finance and Implementation. The DMIC project is to be developed in Phases, with the Phase I to be implemented by 2012 and Phase II by 2016.
As a strategy towards development of the project, nodes have been identified within the Corridor as Investment Regions (IRs), with minimum area of 200 square kilometers and Industrial Areas (IAs), with minimum area of 100 square kilometers. These regions/areas would include self-sustained industrial townships with world-class infrastructure served by multi-modal connectivity for freight movement/logistic hubs, domestic/international air connectivity, reliable power, quality social infrastructure and globally competitive environment. The project would open up vast opportunities along the various national highways (NH-1, NH-2, NH-8 & NH-10) for developing industrial, urban and supporting infrastructure. The following projects have been planned in Haryana:
Phase I:
Phase II:
Manesar – Bawal Investment Region
Faridabad-Palwal Industrial area
Kundli-Sonipat Investment Region
Rewari-Hisar Industrial Area
Apart from the above, the State Government has identified a few viable stand-alone projects for development as model initiatives and to capitalize on the existing potential, under the Public Private Partnership Model. These projects, christened “Early Bird Projects”, are listed as under:
Regional MRTS between Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal with feeder