The cupboard has greenlighted a mega challenge to construct 12 industrial sensible cities throughout the ten states, Union minister Ashwini Vaishnaw introduced right now. The cities will come up alongside six main industrial corridors. The federal government has earmarked Rs 28,602 crore for this large push on manufacturing, the minister stated after a gathering of the Union cupboard chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The economic areas shall be positioned in Khurpia in Uttrakhand, Rajpura-Patiala in Punjab, Dighi in, Maharashtra, Palakkad in Kerela, Agra and Prayagraj in UP, Gaya in Bihar, Zaheerabad in Telangana, Orvakal and Kopparthy in AP and Jodhpur-Pali in Rajasthan.
“The transfer is about to remodel the commercial panorama of the nation creating a sturdy community of business nodes and cities that can considerably enhance financial progress and international competitiveness,” the federal government has stated.
It might additionally present a large scope for employment. Altogether, the sensible metropolis challenge would make use of practically 10 lakh individuals. It might additionally not directly create 30 lakh new jobs, the minister stated.
The world-class greenfield industrial sensible cities shall be constructed with “plug-n-play” and “walk-to-work” ideas, the federal government has stated in an announcement.
The funding potential of the challenge shall be round 1.52 lakh crore. It’s designed to foster a vibrant industrial ecosystem by facilitating investments from massive anchor industries and Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises or MSMEs.
These industrial nodes will act as catalysts for reaching $2 trillion in exports by 2030, reflecting the federal government’s imaginative and prescient of a self-reliant and globally aggressive India, the federal government has stated.
