The Naya Raipur Development Authority (NRDA) will soon start allotting a plot for ‘Multipurpose Modern Warehouse Project’ at Sector 1 of new capital city, official informed.
A mega Multi-Modal logistic Park (MMlP) is currently also under construction spread in an area of 103 acres with an investment of Rs 207 crore in Chhattisgarh’s new capital—Naya Raipur, officials informed.
Notably, the MMlPs in Telangana, Odisha, Chhattisgarh, and Uttarakhand are being developed by Central public sector undertaking Container Corporation of India ltd (CONCOR).
As part of the National Perspective Plan, prepared under the Sagarmala Programme of the Union Ministry of Shipping, a total of seven MMlPs were proposed in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Odisha, Telangana, Uttarakhand and West Bengal.
The potential sites were identified based on comprehensive study of the container cargo movement across the country and are located in the proximity of important industrial clusters. This will be advantageous for the transportation of containerised cargo, officials informed.
Taking this forward, CONCOR officials have informed that domestic operations have already commenced at 1 MMlP in Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) and MMlPs at 4 proposed locations—Nagulapally (Telangana), Siliguri (West Bengal), Naya Raipur (Chhattisgarh) and Jharsuguda (Odisha), which are under development stage.
It may be recalled that Chhattisgarh Fovernment had been wooing prospective investors to take advantage of the State’s strategic location which shares boundaries with seven States. The States are–Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh and Maharashtra, officials stated.
The investors would have access to 50.9 crore population (40 per cent of country’s population) and potential to tap 38 per cent of India’s GDP, officials stated.
Notably, State Commerce and Industry Minister Amar Agrawal in the month of January this year had suggested Consul General of People’s Republic of China MA Zhanwu who was on a visit to Chhattisgarh that owing to its location in the heart of the country, Chhattisgarh State can be developed as ‘logistics Hub of India’.
The Consulate General then had assured that China will encourage its industrialists to extend support in development of Chhattisgarh as ‘logistics Hub’ of India.
NRDA also has plans of developing a ‘Transport Hub’ spread over an area of 161.9 hectares in the new capital city. The hub would include setting up light Rail Transport System (lRTS) stations. The area being earmarked for the ‘Transport Hub’ would be 12.55 per cent of the total area of the new capital city, officials stated.