The National Industrial Corridor Development Corporation works under which ministry?
- A.The Ministry of Road Transport and Highways
- B.The Ministry of Commerce and Industry
- C.The Ministry of Heavy Industries
- D.The Ministry of Railways
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry. 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. A is wrong because the Ministry of Road Transport and Highways builds the expressways a corridor may use but does not run the programme. C is wrong because the Ministry of Heavy Industries deals with capital goods and automobile policy, including electric vehicle schemes, not corridor development. D is wrong because the Ministry of Railways builds the dedicated freight corridors through a separate corporation but does not develop the industrial nodes alongside them.
Read the full article: Industrial Corridors of India: Nodes and Partners
Practice Questions
View allThe 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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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.
Read the full explanation →The 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.
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