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The AKIC (Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor) passes through how many states?

Correct answer: (B) 7 states.

The Amritsar-Kolkata Industrial Corridor is counted as covering seven states: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal.

  1. (A)

    10 states

  2. (B)

    7 states

  3. (C)

    3 states

  4. (D)

    4 states

Explanation

AKIC is linked to the Eastern Dedicated Freight Corridor, and the exam fact to remember is its seven-state coverage: Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The NICDC page describes the corridor along the EDFC alignment and states that AKIC has an influence area across these seven states. This is why option B fits the official framing better than smaller counts such as three or four states. The corridor is not just a transport line to memorise as Amritsar to Kolkata; it is an industrial-development geography built around the 1,839 km EDFC stretch, intended to create industrial infrastructure and improve economic and employment potential along the region.

Why the other options are wrong

  • (A) Ten states overstates the AKIC coverage given in the explanation and on the NICDC page, which identify seven core influence-area states.
  • (C) Three states is too narrow because AKIC is framed across the Punjab-to-West Bengal belt, not as a corridor limited to only three states.
  • (D) Four states misses three of the listed AKIC states and therefore does not match the corridor's seven-state coverage.

Concept

This tests the industrial-corridor part of Indian economic geography, especially corridor alignment and state coverage. It recurs in RAS because such questions connect infrastructure planning with regional development and map-based state recall.

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