Industry ministry demands Rs 18,500 to develop 7 cities around the DIMC

21 May 2011 Evaluate

The industry ministry is looking for Rs. 18,500 crore from cabinet to develop seven cities around the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DIMC). The DMIC is a mega infrastructure development project of $90 billion with the financial and technical help from Japan, covering an overall length of 1483 KMs between the political and commercial capitals of the nation.

The all seven cities would come up along Delhi Mumbai Rail Freight Corridor covering Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. The department of industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) has obtained views of most the related ministries for the development project. And it’s expected that DIPP will prepare a note for cabinet asking for funds.

Infrastructure like internal road, solid wastes disposal, flood management, storm water and sewage system, bus and rail-based public transportation system and landscaping will be developed with Rs. 17,500 and remaining Rs 1000 will be used for preliminary work of the project (as a Project Development Fund). Around Rs 2,500 crore would be spent on each city to build up basic infrastructure.

The planned new cities and sub-cities will be developed around the industrial hubs of Kushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana in Rajasthan, Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, Bharuch-Dahej in Gujarat, Igatpuri-Nashik-Sinnar in Maharashtra and Pitampura-Dhar-Mhow in Madhya Pradesh. Subsequently, 17 extra cities are planned to be developed on a similar model.

The money for the development of project would be raised from the debt and equity and would be ploughed into The Delhi Mumbai Corridor Development Corporation (DMiCDC) which will be joint venture between government and IL& FS and IDFC. This investment is necessary to create basic infrastructure so that industrial and trading activities can come up. This money has to be put in by government even before public - private partnership (PPP) business model can be developed. 

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