The Indian government has planned to get started with the development of multi-modal logistics parks at near about 35 locations around the country. This logistics park construction has been estimated to include approx 33,000 crore. The Road Transport and Highways Ministry has come up with the idea of this massive logistic parks construction under LEEP [Logistics Efficiency Enhancement Programme].
Adding more to this subject, the National Highway Authority of India signed the MoU [Memorandum of Understanding] with TIDCO [Tamil Nadu Industrial Development Corporation Ltd.] in the presence of Nitin Gadkari [Road transport & highways and shipping minister] and M.C.Sampath [Tamil Nadu Minister for Industries] for developing the multimodal logistic park somewhere around State’s Kamarajar port in Ponneri Industrial Node area. On this, Gadkari commented that, “It is an important agreement for the development of an integrated, multi-modal transport infrastructure in the country“.
Apart from developing highways, BharatMala aims at developing logistics parks pic.twitter.com/9rMeOSKGG1
— Nitin Gadkari (@nitin_gadkari) October 25, 2017
Lately the minister Gadkari have stated through the multimodal logistic parks project development statistics that the “24 logistic parks identified on National corridors will cater to key production and consumption centers accounting for almost 45 percent of road freight of the country”. The reports also showed that the consolidated movement [Mumbai to Delhi NCR] is expected to boost the efficiency of freight movement on existing corridors together with minimizing the logistics cost by almost 25 percent.
The 35 locations that are planned to be picked for the construction of multimodal logistics parks are as follows:
- Delhi NCR [Delhi, Gurgaon, Noida, Ghaziabad, Faridabad]
- Mumbai [Mumbai, Mumbai suburbs, JNPT, Raigad district, Mumbai port]
- Hyderabad
- North Gujarat [Vadodara and Ahemedabad]
- South Punjab [Ludhiana, Patiala, Sangrur]
- South Gujarat [Bharuch and Surat]
- North Punjab [Gurdaspur, Jalandhar, Amritsar]
- Bangalore
- Jaipur
- Vijayvada
- Pune
- Nagpur
- Patna
- Chennai
- Indore
- Valsad
- Kolkatta
- Coimbatore
- Ambala
- Nasik
- Jagatsinghpur
- Guwahati
- Panaji
- Kota
- Hissar
- Vishakhapatnam
- Sudargarh
- Bhopal
- Solan
- Bhatinda
- Rajkot
- Jammu
- Raipur
- Cochin
- Kandla
These multimodal logistic parks have been planned with the intention of minimizing the logistics cost in the country. Moreover, the government of India requires focusing on perfect positioning of the institutional and regulatory support for this massive and fruitful construction for nation’s logistic future.
