Infrastructure Corridors

Clusters of businesses, often in Tier II or Tier III cities, connected to each other and to Tier I cities with good infrastructure, have become “infrastructure corridors”. These corridors attract more and larger investment projects. The Important Industrial/ manufacturing clusters in India include

• North India: Delhi-NCR; The Delhi-Jaipur-Agra “golden triangle”: commerce and manufacturing hub; Japanese Investment Corridor; Kanpur (leather and textile machinery)
• West India: Mumbai-Pune corridor (engineering); Nasik (engineering); ; Surat (textiles, gemstones); Ahmedabad-Baroda-Ankleshwar (refineries and petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, fertilizers)
• South India: Chennai-Sriperumbudur (automotive and heavy engineering); Coimbatore (engineering and textiles), Salem (steel, food processing, poultry); Bangalore-Hosur (industry and IT); Hyderabad- (Pharmaceuticals and IT); Vishakhapatnam-Kakinada (Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical).
• East India: Kolkata (heavy engineering, IT); Jamshedpur (automotives); Chhattisgarh (power, steel, iron ore).