India’s eleven national industrial corridors
The freight spines, fabs and smart cities reshaping India. Click any corridor to open its dossier — status, anchor nodes, programme, official sources and our research, in one place.
Sources: DPIIT/NICDC status reports (31 Oct & 30 Nov 2025), NICDIT Apex Monitoring Authority review (Aug 2026), PIB, India Investment Grid · Updated 10 Sep 2026 · Score methodology· Download node dataset (CSV)
Put two to four nodes side by side
Choose two to four nodes to compare status, scale and tenants side by side.
Programme-wide position as reported at the NICDIT Apex Monitoring Authority review (August 2026): 20 approved projects across 13 states, with four smart cities already at production stage — Dholera SIR, Shendra–Bidkin (AURIC), IIT Greater Noida and Vikram Udyogpuri.
Where the 39 deep-researched nodes stand
Development stage per node dossier. Open a corridor for per-node status, allottees and sources.
Source: PIB — NICDIT Apex Monitoring Authority review (Aug 2026) · Budget 2026–27 allocates a further ₹3,000 cr to NICDIT; NICDP-wide aggregates, shown alongside the corridor table below.
What changed this quarter
The latest node- and corridor-level developments across the eleven corridors, from DPIIT/NICDC status reports and PIB releases.
- Sep 2026Final three Western DFC sections dedicated (8 Sep) — New Sanand–New Makarpura, New Umbergaon–New Saphale and New Saphale–New JNPT, 326 route km at over ₹20,700 cr; the 1,506 km Dadri–JNPT route is fully operational and the first double-stack container train ran from JNPT the same day— Corridor-wide · DMIC
- Sep 2026WDFC sets a throughput record — 431 trains interchanged in a single day (11 Sep), past the 419 of 30 August; DFCCIL puts average freight speed above 50 kmph, roughly twice the conventional network— Corridor-wide · DMIC
- Aug 2026NICDIT release reaches ₹405.46 cr (+₹198.37 cr since Nov 2025; 4 Aug 2026 Lok Sabha reply)— Khurpia IMC (Prag-Khurpia) · AKIC
- Aug 2026Still awaiting Supreme Court TTZ clearance per the 4 Aug Lok Sabha reply — the only one of the twelve Aug-2024 nodes without an EPC path; initial ₹2.50 cr equity released— Agra IMC · AKIC
- Aug 2026NICDIT release reaches ₹134.72 cr (+₹2.50 cr since Nov 2025; 4 Aug 2026 Lok Sabha reply)— Gaya IMC · AKIC
- Aug 20263rd Apex Monitoring Authority: 469 plots / ~5,348 ac allotted programme-wide, 134 units in production; four AKIC states represented (17 Aug)— Corridor-wide · AKIC
- Aug 2026Fresh AURIC Bidkin allotment round opens 24 August (applications close 4 September); Bidkin cumulative allotment at 91 plots / 2,570 ac— Shendra–Bidkin (AURIC) · DMIC
- Aug 2026First freight train flagged off from the new rail yard (23 August) — rail operations begin— IMLH Nangal Chaudhary · DMIC
Developments tracked from DPIIT/NICDC status reports and PIB releases · each dossier carries the full timeline and linked sources.
Explore the corridors geographically
The eleven corridors and their anchor nodes on a live map — coloured by readiness tier and node stage. Click any line or node to open its dossier.
Click a corridor or node to open its dossier. Node positions are centroid-approximate. Satellite imagery © Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics.
The eleven, scored
Each corridor scored 0–100 on maturity, capital momentum, connectivity and opportunity openness — the Techadyant Corridor Readiness Score. Higher means closer to investable today.
- 1Delhi–Mumbai90Build-now
- 2Chennai–Bengaluru72Build-now
- 3Vizag–Chennai69Build-now
- 4Odisha (OEC)62Position-early
- 5Amritsar–Kolkata61Position-early
- 6Hyderabad–Nagpur60Position-early
- 7Hyderabad–Bengaluru54Position-early
- 8CBIC extension to Kochi (via Coimbatore)51Position-early
- 9Hyderabad–Warangal48Position-early
- 10Bengaluru–Mumbai48Position-early
- 11Delhi–Nagpur37Watch
Compare the eleven
One table, all eleven corridors: readiness score, build status, route, state coverage, anchor-node depth and headline investment programme. Scroll sideways on mobile; every row opens the full dossier.
| Corridor | Status | Readiness | Length | States | Anchor nodes | Headline node | Investment | Jobs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Delhi–Mumbai | Operational | 90Build-now | 1,504 km | Delhi, UP, Haryana, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra | 9 | Dholera SIR | ~US$90 bn programme · ₹16,173 cr released to NICDIT (NICDP-wide) | ~3 mn programme projection · 1.29 lakh jobs potential on allotted plots (NICDP-wide) |
| Chennai–Bengaluru | Operational | 72Build-now | ~560 km | Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh | 3 | Tumakuru node (Vasanthanarasapura) | -- | -- |
| CBIC extension to Kochi (via Coimbatore) | In build-out | 51Position-early | Extension | Tamil Nadu, Kerala | 2 | Palakkad node | ~₹10,000 cr (Palakkad) | ~10,000 (Palakkad) |
| Amritsar–Kolkata | Operational | 61Position-early | 1,839 km | Punjab, Haryana, UP, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal | 8 | Rajpura–Patiala IMC | -- | -- |
| Hyderabad–Nagpur | In build-out | 60Position-early | Telangana – Maharashtra | Telangana, Maharashtra | 1 | Zaheerabad NIMZ | ₹2,361 cr (Zaheerabad) | -- |
| Hyderabad–Warangal | In build-out | 48Position-early | 235 km | Telangana | 2 | Kakatiya Mega Textile Park | -- | -- |
| Hyderabad–Bengaluru | In build-out | 54Position-early | 3 states | Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka | 2 | Orvakal node | -- | -- |
| Bengaluru–Mumbai | Planned | 48Position-early | Karnataka – Maharashtra | Karnataka, Maharashtra | 2 | Dharwad node | -- | -- |
| Vizag–Chennai | In build-out | 69Build-now | 800+ km coastline | Andhra Pradesh (ECEC Phase-1) | 5 | Kopparthy (KIA / YSR EMC) | -- | -- |
| Odisha (OEC) | Planned | 62Position-early | ~600 km along NH-16 | Odisha | 2 | GBK Zone (Gopalpur–Bhubaneswar–Kalinganagar) | -- | -- |
| Delhi–Nagpur | Planned | 37Watch | 5 states | Delhi, UP, Rajasthan, MP, Maharashtra | 3 | Delhi (northern gateway) | -- | -- |
Investment and jobs figures are official programme projections; node counts include deep-researched profiles. Full source list on each dossier. Data as CSV: corridor-nodes.csv.