Amritsar–Kolkata Industrial Corridor

Rajpura–Patiala is one of the more advanced AKIC nodes: the SPV was incorporated on 30 December 2022, environmental clearance has been obtained, equity has been released and — as of the February 2026 PIB status report — it is among the nine of twelve NICDP greenfield cities where an EPC contractor has been appointed for internal trunk-infrastructure works.

Hisar is the largest AKIC node by area (2,988 acres) and carries the corridor’s biggest headline numbers — ₹4,680 cr development cost, ₹32,417 cr investment potential and 1,25,000 jobs — but it is also a late starter. The State Support and Shareholder Agreements were signed only on 20 August 2025 and the SPV, NICDC Haryana Integrated Manufacturing Cluster Hisar Project Limited, was incorporated on 25 September 2025.

Khurpia — also called Prag-Khurpia or IMC Khurpia Farm — is one of the earliest-cleared AKIC nodes: SSA/SHA executed 30 April 2022, SPV (NICDC Uttarakhand Industrial Township Limited) incorporated 21 October 2022, environmental clearance granted 9 March 2023, CCEA approval 28 August 2024, and an EPC contractor appointed by February 2026 with the tender issued in July 2025.

Agra IMC is a 1,058-acre node whose entire design is shaped by the Taj Trapezium Zone: only non-polluting (Green-category) industries are permitted, which is why its focus sectors are leather articles, food processing, light engineering, medical consumables and ESDM, and why a third of the master plan is green cover. The State Support and Shareholder Agreements were signed on 8 November 2024, and it shares a single SPV — Integrated Manufacturing Cluster Agra Prayagraj Limited — with the Prayagraj node, incorporated 30 January 2025.

Prayagraj is the smallest AKIC node by area (352 acres) but one of the most advanced: an EPC Letter of Award was issued on 27 October 2025 for internal trunk infrastructure, putting it ahead of Hisar (still master planning) and roughly level with the other EPC-stage nodes. It shares the single Integrated Manufacturing Cluster Agra Prayagraj Limited SPV with Agra (incorporated 30 January 2025; SSA/SHA 7–8 November 2024).

Gaya is being built as Bihar’s largest industrial township and the second-largest AKIC node at 1,670 acres. It has moved fast for a late starter: CCEA approval 28 August 2024, SSA/SHA 12 November 2024, SPV (Bihar Integrated Manufacturing City Gaya Limited) incorporated 6 January 2025, environmental clearance 18 March 2025, industrial-area notification and stamp-duty waiver in March 2025, and land acquisition confirmed complete by mid-2025.

The Jharkhand IMC is the corridor’s sole stalled node. Unlike every other AKIC node, it has no confirmed site, no SPV, no master plan or DPR, and therefore no area, cost, investment or employment figures — because the originally identified New Bahri site is no longer available and an alternate is still being identified by the state government, per the NICDC DMU report of October 2024.

Raghunathpur — branded Jangal Sundari Karmanagari — is unusual among AKIC nodes: it is the second-largest by area (2,483 acres) yet the least advanced as an NICDP project. It is confirmed as an AKIC node in NICDC’s FY 2020-21 annual report, but it has no Centre–State joint SPV, remaining a state-led township under WBIDC, and the IMC component has been on hold since 22 June 2021 pending clarity on funding for the Sonnagar–Dankuni section of the EDFC.