RAS question
DMIC stands for:
Correct answer: (A) Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
DMIC stands for Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, a major infrastructure project planned along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor.
Explanation
DMIC is the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, not a generic manufacturing or investment label. The PIB release records that the Government of India gave in-principle approval to the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project outline in August 2007. It describes DMIC as a corridor proposed in a band on either side of the Western Dedicated rail Freight Corridor, covering parts of Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The freight corridor stretch is 1,504 km, and the project involved Japanese collaboration. For RAS, the clue is both the expansion and the Rajasthan link: Khushkhera-Bhiwadi-Neemrana and Jaipur-Dausa are listed among Rajasthan's DMIC nodes.
Why the other options are wrong
- (B) Digital Manufacturing and Innovation Centre changes DMIC into a technology-centre phrase, while the PIB release expands it as Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor.
- (C) Delhi-Mumbai Infrastructure Complex keeps the two city names but replaces Industrial Corridor, the official project wording used by the Government of India.
- (D) Domestic Manufacturing Investment Corporation is unrelated to the corridor project described by PIB and does not match the DMIC expansion in the question.
Concept
This tests infrastructure-led industrial development, especially national industrial corridors linked to freight-corridor planning. It recurs in RAS because DMIC includes Rajasthan nodes and connects economic geography with state industrial policy.