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Nashik to be developed on Delhi-Mumbai Freight route

Nashik has been identified as the first development node on the Delhi-Mumbai Freight Corridor to boost business activities in the cities that fall along this rail route.

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NASHIK: Nashik has been identified as the first development node on the Delhi-Mumbai Freight Corridor to boost business activities in the cities that fall along this rail route.

The freight corridor is being developed to establish connectivity between the state and the economic capital and to connect the states of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Gujarat to Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT), India’s largest container port, said Ajij Khan, principal secretary, Industry, Ministry, Govt of Maharashtra.

Khan was in Nashik to inaugurate Nashik Engineering Cluster (NEC), a training-cum-assisting centre for industries in Nashik.

Developed at Rs50 crore, this is the third such cluster in the state after Pimpri–Chinchwad in Pune and Ichalkaranji, to provide training to engineers and
industry personnel for CAD, CAM, CAE and CNC software.

A Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Corporation has been formed to look into potential development centres in six states along the freight rail route.

In the first phase of this project, Nashik-Igatpuri-Sinnar zone has been selected. The focus in this area will be on industrialisation, promoting economic activities, and developing the infrastructure for it.

Khan said that a Japanese firm had shown interest.
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