The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor is aligned along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, which runs from Dadri to which port?
- A.Kandla Port
- B.Jawaharlal Nehru Port
- C.Mormugao Port
- D.Mundra Port
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, Jawaharlal Nehru Port. 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. A is wrong because Kandla, now called Deendayal Port, lies in the Gulf of Kutch and is not the southern terminus of this freight corridor. C is wrong because Mormugao Port is in Goa, far to the south of the corridor's alignment and on the Konkan coast. D is wrong because Mundra, although a very large private port in Gujarat, is not the designated terminus of the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor. The corridor's whole purpose is to move containers cheaply from the northern hinterland to this one port.
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Practice Questions
View allThe Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor is being developed with the cooperation of which country?
- A.Japan
- B.Germany
- C.South Korea
- D.France
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor passes through how many states?
- A.Four
- B.Five
- C.Six
- D.Eight
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Dholera Special Investment Region, a node of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor, is located in which state?
- A.Rajasthan
- B.Gujarat
- C.Maharashtra
- D.Madhya Pradesh
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Park, developed as AURIC, is a node of the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor in which state?
- A.Gujarat
- B.Maharashtra
- C.Karnataka
- D.Haryana
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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.
Read the full explanation →The Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor is aligned along which infrastructure spine?
- A.The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor
- B.The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor
- C.The Golden Quadrilateral
- D.The East Coast shipping route
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The Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor uses this line as its spine and plans integrated manufacturing clusters as its nodes across seven states.
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