All you need to know about DMIC

Government of India plans to develop a multimodal high axle load dedicated freight corridor between Delhi and Mumbai. The main objective of DMIC (Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor) would be to promote the economic development of the region by enhancing the investment and by optimal usage of the potential.

A MoU(Memorandum of understanding) is signed between METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industries) of Japan and MoCI (Ministry of Commerce and Industries) of India to explore the opportunities of mutual cooperation.

The distribution of freight corridor which passes through six states indicates that Rajasthan(39%) and Gujarat(38%) constitute 77% of the length, Maharashtra and Haryana constitute 10% each and Uttar Pradesh and NCR Delhi constitute a 1.5% each. The freight corridor is aligned parallel to the existing railway tracks for the convenience in transportation.

Key Sustainable Development Projects:

• Transit Oriented Development approach to reduce the commuting needs of employees.
• Mass transit systems and well-developed transport corridors which encourage public transport and personalised non-motorised transport.
• Efficient recycling and reuse of water and solid waste.
• Sustainable energy production through renewable resources such as sunlight, natural gas etc,.
• Smart cities with control and governance through IT.
• Conservation of natural sensitive environment and integration of villages into cities for better infrastructure provision.

Concept

Integrated corridor development approach and node based development:
DMIC consists of many well-developed, moderately developed and under developed industrial estates with or without proper social and physical infrastructure. The major missing link of these industrial estates is transportation-logistics, industrial and social infrastructure to facilitate the exports of the output. The DMIC proposes to address this lack of infrastructure through proposing high impact nodes to provide efficient investment-friendly policies under which investment regions and industrial areas will be developed. These investment regions and industrial areas will be developed with self-sustainable infrastructure and world class facilities in terms of transport and social infrastructure. The connectivity will be well developed with road and rail connectivity for freight movement including logistic hubs, airports and ports.

Investment regions:
Investment region would be specifically delineated area for industries with a minimum area of 200 sq km. Maximum area limit will be determined depending on the individual potential of that area. Each DMIC state will have at least one Investment region to ensure the equity in economic benefits. While selecting the investment regions, the possible factors taken into consideration are proximity to metropolitan areas, potential for developing greenfield airports or augmentation, availability of huge chunks of land. These investment regions will be the core industrial areas which will generate high revenue and economic benefits.

Industrial areas:
Industrial areas would be developed for the establishment of facilities which cater for domestic and export led production. The minimum area of industrial areas would be 100 sq km. These areas will have the manufacturing units of infrastructure provision to facilitate the domestic and export led production. Industrial areas are selected depending upon the resource availability and the locations with an opportunity to develop from under-developed industrial areas to developed industrial areas.

Project influence area:
Project influence area for DMIC consists of seven states and two union territories. The total area of PIA comprises of 436,486 sq km which constitutes 13.8 percent of the total area. Project influence area comprises of ten cities with more than one million population. They are Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Faridabad, Meerut, Surat, Vadodara and Nashik. It also consists of six cities with population more than half million and less than one million. They are Aligarh, Ajmer, Ghaziabad, Bhiwadi, Bhavnagar and Jodhpur. All these cities will have a direct influence due to DMIC and enjoys certain economic benefits.

However, the project is being done in different phases and Phase-1 of DMIC is currently underway. For more information on DMIC Phase-1 click here