Manufacturingcities:Spatialplanningand infrastructuredevelopmentinurbanIndia

8 Governance Arrangements for the Industrial Corridors The DMIC The idea of the DMIC originated with two related developments: one, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between the Government of India and the Government of Japan in 2006 to signal collaboration on infrastructure development in India; and two, the planned development of the Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) between Delhi and Mu. [...] 8 With the launch of the Smart Cities Initiative and the Make in India campaign in 2014, the IAs and the IRs along the DMIC are now being imagined and planned as ‘smart’ manufacturing cities to attract industry and accommodate future population growth (Department of Industrial Policy & Promotion, 2014), of which Dholera in Gujarat is the first to be developed.9 Therefore, the plan for the DMIC exp. [...] In the case of Gujarat, the Gujarat Industrial Development Board (GIDB) was originally deputed to be the nodal agency, however, the state government has since created the Gujarat Industrial Corridor Corporation, a new agency, which will oversee the development of the DMIC within the state.12 In Rajasthan, the Bureau of Industrial Promotion (BIP) was the designated nodal agency, but there was a pro. [...] In the case of the SEZs, the onus of land acquisition and development was on the private sector, while state governments are primarily responsible for land acquisition and development for the DMIC nodes in a phased manner.14 For example, in the case of Dholera, the first Special Investment Region (SIR) being developed under the DMIC, the state 14 In the case of the SEZs, there were instances where. [...] In the case of the DMIC, it is actually the national and state governments that will realize most of the benefits from the commodification of land along the corridor and the profits that will accrue from its development.15 This contrasts with the case of other Asian urban megaprojects that “represent an effort to realize a privatized model of urban planning to achieve state goals of the globalizat.