RAS question
DMIC (Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor) runs along:
Correct answer: (A) Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor runs along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, which NICDC treats as DMIC's transportation backbone.
Explanation
DMIC is tied to the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor because the freight corridor provides the transport spine for the Delhi-Mumbai industrial corridor. It is the 1,504 km WDFC between Delhi and Mumbai, passing through Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra, and the project is being developed with Japanese collaboration. The NICDC overview confirms the key exam point in direct terms: while developing the DMIC project, the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor was considered the transportation backbone. That is why option A is not merely a nearby route; it is the infrastructure alignment around which DMIC is planned.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) The Golden Quadrilateral is not identified as DMIC's transport backbone; NICDC specifically names the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor for DMIC.
- (C) The Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor is not the DMIC alignment, since DMIC is assigned to the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
- (D) National Highway 1 is not the route along which DMIC is developed; the official overview links DMIC to the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
Concept
This tests the infrastructure-corridor linkage in Indian economic geography. It recurs in RAS because Rajasthan lies on the DMIC-WDFC axis, making industrial corridors a standard development and location-based theme.