7 manufacturing zones identified in India, Maha gets 2

Maharashtra got two of the seven investment regions selected under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor for setting up the National Industrial Manufacturing Zones under the new national manufacturing policy.

NIMZ is conceptualised as integrated industrial townships with all-important elements to help the growth of infrastructure, clean and energy efficient technology, simplified business regulations and the necessary social and institutional infrastructure.

Indore will get a boost from one such NIMZ to come up in Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow region spread over 370 square kilometres.

One such NIMZ was also identified in each of the four states of Gujarat, Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh, Minister of State for

Commerce and Industry Jyotiraditya Scindia said in reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha on Wednesday.

The sites for the NIMZs proposed in Maharashtra are 84-sq km Shendra-Bidkin industrial park city near Aurangabad and 230-sq km Dighi Port industrial area.

The Gujarat site is proposed in Ahmedabad-Dholera region spread over 900 square km.

Other NIMZs are proposed in Khushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana region in Rajasthan spread over 150 sq km, and Manesar-Bawal region in Haryana.

In reply to another question by Vijay Darda, the minister clarified that the location of the NIMZ has been left for the state governments to decide.

Darda wanted to know if one such NIMZ would be set up in his Yavatmal district to help in diversion of vocations, so that farmers entirely dependent on the rain-fed agriculture could be benefited.