The Visakhapatnam Chennai Industrial Corridor forms the first phase of which larger corridor?
- A.The East Coast Economic Corridor
- B.The Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor
- C.The Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor
- D.The Odisha Economic Corridor
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Explanation
The correct answer is A, the East Coast Economic Corridor, India's first coastal economic corridor, planned to run along the eastern seaboard from Kolkata to Kanyakumari. The Visakhapatnam Chennai stretch was taken up as its first phase, with nodes at Visakhapatnam, Machilipatnam, Donakonda and Srikalahasti-Chittoor. B is wrong because the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor is an inland corridor on the opposite side of the country, aligned to the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor. C is wrong because the Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor runs east to west across the northern plains and ends at Kolkata rather than continuing down the coast. D is wrong because the Odisha Economic Corridor is a separate corridor of the same national programme, not the parent of this one. Remember also that the East Coast Economic Corridor runs along the Bay of Bengal, while the Delhi Mumbai corridor is inland and ends on the Arabian Sea, so the two belong to opposite coasts.
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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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