The
Government has announced eight Investment Regions along the Delhi Mumbai
Industrial Corridor (DMIC) project as National Investment and Manufacturing
Zones (NIMZs). The details are as under:
i)
Ahmedabad-Dholera Investment Region, Gujarat
ii)
Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Part city near Aurangabad, Maharashtra
iii)
Manesar-Bawal Investment Region, Haryana
iv)
Khushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana Investment Region, Rajasthan
v)
Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow Investment Regioin, Madhya Pradesh
vi)
Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad investment Region, Uttar Pradesh
vii)
Dighi Port Industrial Area, Maharashtra, and
viii)
Jodhpur-Pali-Marwar Region in Rajasthan.
Fourteen
NIMZs outside the DMIC region have also been given in-principle approval (i)
Nagpur in Maharashtra, (ii) Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh, (iii) Chittoor in
Andhra Pradesh, (iv) Medak in Telangana, (v) Hyderabad Pharma NIM in Rangareddy
and Mahbubnagar Districts of Telangana, (vi) Tumkur in Karnataka, (vii) Kolar
in Karnataka, (viii) Bidar in Karnataka, (ix) Gulbarga in Karnataka, (x)
Kalinganagar, Jajpur District in Odisha, (xi) Ramanathapuram District of Tamil
Nadu, (xii) Ponneri, Thiruvallur District, Tamil Nadu, (xiii) Auraiya District
in Uttar Pradesh, and (xiv) Jhansi District in Uttar Pradesh.
Out
of these NIMZs, the NIMZs at (i) Prakasam in Andhra Pradesh and (ii) Medak in
Telangana have been granted final approval. The National Manufacturing Policy
is based on the principle of industrial growth in partnership with the States.
It is the prerogative of the States to adopt the instrumentalities provided by
the policy.
For
the Financial Year 2016-17, Rs. 3.35 crores has been earmarked under the
‘Scheme for Implementation of National Manufacturing Policy’ for ‘Master
Planning of NIMZs’ and Technology Acquisition and Development Fund (TADF).
This
was stated by Shri Jayant Sinha, Minister of State in the Ministry of Finance
in written reply to a question in Lok Sabha today.
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