Delhi–Mumbai Industrial Corridor

Dholera is India’s largest greenfield smart city — a 920 sq km plan (~227,337 ac) and the DMIC’s flagship — but it is still pre-operational: the activation-zone trunk infrastructure is being completed and only a handful of solar installations are running, while most manufacturing is two to four years from production.

Shendra–Bidkin, branded AURIC, is the DMIC’s clearest operational success after Dholera: Phase 1 (Shendra) is nearly sold out with firms in production, and Phase 2 (Bidkin) is in advanced development. Cumulative confirmed investment is cited by NICDC at ~₹56,200 cr, concentrated in the EV ecosystem.

IITGNL is the DMIC’s brownfield node — a 747.5-acre township inside the established Greater Noida industrial belt rather than a greenfield city — and is unusual in that its trunk infrastructure was already classified complete by PIB in December 2024. It is therefore in an allotment-and-onboarding phase rather than a construction phase.

Vikram Udyogpuri is the most fully realised DMIC node in the open-source record: Phase 1 (~1,100 ac) is nearly full with 67 industries allotted, 20-plus already in production, and cumulative committed investment above ₹5,000 cr. AMUL is the operational anchor and PepsiCo (₹1,225–1,266 cr, 2,000 jobs) is the largest single named investor, with the figure corroborated across multiple sources.

IMLH Nangal Chaudhary is a logistics-first node — a freight village for rail-road transfer, warehousing, customs and EXIM cargo — not a manufacturing destination, so it is not expected to host named industrial tenants. Approved by CCEA in May 2018 (Phase I trunk cost ₹1,029.49 cr) on 886 ac in Mahendragarh district, it is positioned as India’s largest logistics hub south of NCR, adjacent to the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.

MMLH Dadri and MMTH Boraki together form NCR’s largest integrated logistics project — ~1,209 acres (849 ac logistics hub + 360 ac transport hub) at the unique confluence of the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors. Approved by the Union Cabinet in December 2020, the government-infrastructure cost is ₹4,034 cr (news sources cite ₹5,881–5,942 cr inclusive of PPP), against a projected investment potential of ₹1,15,092 cr and 100,000 jobs.

JPMIA is the larger of Rajasthan’s two DMIC nodes — a notified 154.37 sq km (~38,140 ac) in Pali district, with a 64.62 sq km urbanisable core and a 1,578-ac Phase-A — pursued as a long-horizon, MSME-heavy industrial area rather than a single-anchor mega-project. The Union approved ₹922 cr for Phase-A (₹322.80 cr equity + ₹105 cr soft loan), with investment potential cited at ₹7,500 cr (NICDC) to ₹19,000 cr (press) and jobs of 40,000 to 300,000.

KBNIR is Rajasthan’s first DMIC node and its largest by delineated area — 165.6 sq km (~40,920 ac) across 42 villages along the Rajasthan–Haryana border in Alwar district — but it is the least advanced of the DMIC nodes in execution. As of the most recent official source (April 2023), the Union Government had not approved its project cost; only ₹4.9 cr had been released for SPV incorporation, against a sibling node (JPMIA) that secured ₹922 cr.

Dighi Port Industrial Area is the DMIC’s port-led node and Maharashtra’s second after AURIC — 6,056 ac in Raigad district with nearly half the land (3,005 ac) reserved for industry, the highest industrial share among DMIC nodes. Approved by the Union Cabinet in August 2024 at a ₹5,468 cr cost (₹1,543 cr GoI equity), it carries a ₹38,000 cr investment potential and ~114,000 projected jobs, with environmental clearance already in hand from October 2022.