India’s ambitious DMIC gets underway with land acquisition (which includes Dighi port industrial area.)
In a significant step towards the implementation of the Government
of India’s ambitious Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project, land has
been acquired for four of the eight smart cities to come up along the 1500 km
long corridor, and development of the land acquired has already started, said
Alkesh K. Sharma, CEO the DMIC Development Corporation.
Speaking
to Express on the sidelines of the Asian Development Forum here on Friday, the
Kerala-cadre IAS officer said that the developed land will be available for use
by September. And by 2018, the entire infrastructure will be in place.
The
DMIC will be one of the world’s largest integrated industrial corridors in the
world,generating enormous amounts of industrial output, trade, and employment,
thanks to the application of multiple information and communication
technologies, Sharma said.
The
US$ 100 million DMIC will have two international airports, cities with MRTS and
multi-nodal logistic hubs across the states of UP, MP, Gujarat and Maharashtra.
With
the involvement of reputed consultants from the UK, US, Sweden, Singapore and
Hong Kong, the Master Plan for the DMIC is of international standard, Sharma
said.
Every
utility in the smart cities will be integrated with a central command through
an ICT system. The system will enable the detection of faults with precision.
All cables, water supply pipes and drains will be underground to make the
cities green.
The
project has an integrated water management plan and also a smart electric
supply scheme, tapping into and integrating all sources of energy including
wind and solar power to ensure a 24X7 service.
To
make the corridor directly beneficial to locals, youth of the area will be
given training in new trades and given employment in the industries and other
establishments coming up in the corridor.
The
smart cities have been given special power by an act of parliament and
therefore the approved and Master Plan cannot be tampered with according to the
whims of politicians, Sharma said.
The
eight investment regions proposed to be developed in Phase I of DMIC are:
Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad Investment Region in UP; the Manesar-Bawal Investment
Region in Haryana; the Khushkhera- Bhiwadi-Neemrana Investment Region and the
Jodhpur Pali Marwar Industrial Area in Rajasthan; the Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow
Investment Region in Madhya Pradesh; Ahmedabad-Dholera Special Investment
Region (SIR) in Gujarat; and the Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Park and Dighi Port
Industrial Area in Maharashtra.
The
Ahmedabad-Dholera SIR is the biggest of these with a total area of 920 sq kms,
with a target residential population of two million and employment for 800,000
people by 2040.
Courtesy:
The New Indian Express