The Centre has identified critical infrastructure gaps across the proposed industrial corridors in the country and has drawn up a plan to provide rail and road connectivity to overcome these.
An internal assessment discovered none of the nodes on the planned industrial corridors have rail connectivity to ports. To address these concerns, 24 new railway and 15 new road projects have been identified. The assessment found that just 10 nodes were connected by a National Highway (NH) or with a four-lane road connecting to a NH. There are 28 road projects spanning 523 km for bettering access to good roads from industrial corridor nodes. Of these, the new identified projects cover 306 km.
