Bids are invited for smart city on Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor
Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation
Now finally work is going to start on building the smart cities at Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, and for that central government has moved the conceptualization stage and now after five years they finally sought bids for building core infrastructure on Delhi-Mumbai Corridor.
On last Thursday, DMICDC (Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation) invited the bids for trunk infrastructure and setting the stage for construction of core infrastructure projects in the proposed of green-field city for the Pithampur-DharMhow Investment Region, which is in Madhya Pradesh. According to authentic sources the estimated cost for the initial projects can be worth of Rs 300 crore. Later on Friday evening, the Trust of Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) cleared three smart city projects for a second city in Dholera, which is in Gujarat and it will include the administrative building, water treatment plant and roads and utilities in the first stage. Along with all development and as well as with sewerage treatment plants and common effluent, it is expected that these will be of worth Rs 2,650 crore. After getting the green light from the trust, now DMICDC is planning to seek bids later this month. In next step there will be more bids for similar infrastructure facilities in Shendra, which is in Maharashtra and it will be the third city on which bids are expected to be sought by the end of the financial year.
As per the officials, the work on Integrated Industrial Township in Greater Noida is in progress and for some of the work bids will be invited by the end of March. The fifth project is the Global City near Gurgaon and for that master plan is about to complete. Now DMICDC is too keen for the trunk infrastructure in these three cities as they are ready over in next three years so that work on commercial projects, residential properties and factories can commence. Central government is hoping that the private sector will take over once the core infrastructure is in place. Apart from these five smart cities central government is targeting 100 smart cities, in which most of them will be the upgrading of existing ones, while proposed cities along with the industrial corridor are green-field projects. We all know that in India, only a handful of new cities have been built after the independence.
