Nagpur: The Indian Railways maiden draft National Rail Plan (NRP) released on Friday aims to develop Nagpur-Hyderabad (NHIC) & Delhi-Nagpur (DNIC) as industrial corridors under its National Industrial Corridor Development Programme.
The NRP released by Railway Board CEO VK Yadav plans India s most ambitious infrastructure program aiming to develop new industrial cities as ‘Smart Cities’ and converging next-generation technologies across infrastructure sectors.
The two industrial corridor projects are among 11 projects to be developed in four phases up to 2024-25. Apart from the two industrial corridors, the draft NRP also aims to establish a dedicated freight corridor (DFC) between North-South between Delhi-Chennai via Itarsi-Nagpur-Vijayawada.