Indian Economy Quiz: Industrial Corridors of India

The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the spine of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, runs about fifteen hundred kilometres from Dadri in Uttar Pradesh to the Jawaharlal Nehru Port near Navi Mumbai, which is India's largest container handling port.

The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor was conceived in 2006 as a project to be built with Japanese technical and financial cooperation, and Japanese agencies have funded both the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor and several of the corridor's nodes.

The corridor's influence zone covers Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, besides the National Capital Territory of Delhi, and about forty per cent of its length lies in Rajasthan and Gujarat together.

Dholera lies in the Ahmedabad district of Gujarat, on the Gulf of Khambhat, and is the largest greenfield node of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, planned as an industrial city with its own expressway link to Ahmedabad and an airport.

The Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Park lies near Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, formerly Aurangabad, and is developed as the Aurangabad Industrial City, from which the short name AURIC comes.

The Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor uses this line as its spine and plans integrated manufacturing clusters as its nodes across seven states.

The correct answer is B, the Asian Development Bank, which prepared the conceptual development plan for the corridor and has financed its infrastructure in Andhra Pradesh.

The Visakhapatnam Chennai stretch was taken up as its first phase, with nodes at Visakhapatnam, Machilipatnam, Donakonda and Srikalahasti-Chittoor.

Its three nodes are Ponneri in Tamil Nadu, Tumakuru in Karnataka and Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh, and the corridor is developed with Japanese cooperation to link the engineering and automobile cluster of Chennai with the electronics and machine tool cluster of Bengaluru.

The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, which was earlier the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation, is the implementing agency of the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme and functions under the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade in that ministry.

Vikram Udyogpuri is an integrated industrial township developed near Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh as one of the state's two nodes in the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor.

Khushkhera, Bhiwadi and Neemrana lie in the Alwar and Khairthal-Tijara belt of north-eastern Rajasthan, close to the Delhi border and on the Delhi-Jaipur highway, and the region is already a cluster of automobile ancillary, electronics and Japanese-owned units.