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DMIC: MP Govt. asked to improve connectivity

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The $90 b project is being built with Japanese assistance

Indore-Nashik link should be made expressway
Four-laning of NH86 extension suggested

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday asked the Madhya Pradesh Government to improve road connectivity of four industrial regions proposed in the State under the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) to kick-start the ambitious $90 billion project.

In a communication to the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister, Shivraj Singh Chauhan, the Union Commerce and Industry Minister, Kamal Nath, said the road connectivity of the four industrial regions of Madhya Pradesh — Shajapur-Dewas; Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow; Neemuch-Nayagaon and Ratlan-Nagda — under the DMIC project needed to be improved.

Mr. Kamal Nath said transport connectivity could be improved by four laning the Dewas-Sehore-Bhopal stretch of NH 86 extension and the road connecting Jaora on NH 79 with Maksi.

He also suggested improving connectivity of Indore with Mumbai.

“I suggest that between Indore and Nashik, the road link be similarly converted into an expressway with the Madhya Pradesh Government taking responsibility of developing it between Indore and Shirpur on the Maharashtra-Madhya Pradesh border and for the remaining portion up to Nashik being so developed, Mr. Kamal Nath said in his letter to the Chief Minister.

The DMIC project being built with Japanese assistance was originally planned to pass through Gujarat, Haryana, Maharashtra, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. The route of the corridor was realigned to include Madhya Pradesh, Mr. Kamal Nath’s home State.

Mr. Kamal Nath has also written to the Union Minister for Shipping, Transport and Highways, T. R. Baalu, stating that the Government had accorded in-principle approval to the DMIC project.

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