The Haryana Government has constituted a Steering Committee under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary for interdepartmental coordination and approvals relating to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) and Amritsar Kolkata Industrial Corridor (AKIC).
The Steering Committee aims at achieving the objective set forth for the completion of projects, said a spokesman of the Industries and Commerce Department.
DMIC is an industrial development project between the Indian capital city of Delhi to its financial hub Mumbai and is planned as a hi-tech industrial zone spread across seven states including Haryana along the 1,500 km long Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
Similarly, AKIC is another ambitious project aimed at developing an industrial
Zone spanning across seven states including Haryana in India and will be beneficial for 20 cities under these States.
The project will see major expansion of Infrastructure and Industry – including industrial clusters and rail, road, port, air connectivity – in the states along the route of the corridor.
The spokesman said that the members of the Committee included Additional Chief Secretaries of Power, Town and Country Planning, Public Works, Irrigation, Urban local Bodies Departments and Principal Secretary of Industries and Commerce Department.
The Managing Director, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation would be the Member Secretary of the Committee. Any other Administrative Secretary, Secretaries or Head of Department can be invited as a special invitee.
The spokesman said that the Committee would coordinate with various departments and take necessary action to ensure time bound implementation of projects.
It would review the decisions taken in the meeting of High level Monitoring Committee (HlMC). It would also take decisions on issues forwarded to it by the HlM, said he.
The headquarter of the Committee will be at Chandigarh and it would hold its meetings as and when required. The tenure of the Committee would be up to the completion of the project, he added.