Bids sought for first smart city on Delhi-Mumbai corridor.

Five years after work started on building smart cities along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, the government has moved past the conceptualization stage and has finally sought bids for building core infrastructure.

The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC) on Thursday invited bids for trunk infrastructure, setting the stage for construction of core projects in the proposed greenfield city in the Pithampur-Dhar-Mhow Investment Region in Madhya Pradesh. The initial projects, sources said, are estimated to be worth around Rs. 300 crore.

On Friday evening, the DMICDC Trust cleared three projects for a second city in Dholera (Gujarat), which includes roads and utilities, administrative building and water treatment plant in the first stage. Along with common effluent and sewerage treatment plants, these projects are estimated to be worth Rs. 2,650 crore.

With the green light from the trust, DMICDC is planning to seek bids later this month. Next up will be bids for similar infrastructure facilities in Shendra (Maharashtra), the third city on which bids are expected to be sought by the end of the financial year, sources said.

TOI