DMIC Explained: The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor & Dholera

Home / Government / DMIC Explained The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor, explained The DMIC is the national programme Dholera belongs to. It is a huge industrial and infrastructure effort along the freight corridor between Delhi and Mumbai, designed to build a string of new, planned industrial cities, and Dholera is its very first node. Here is what it is, why Dholera matters to it, and who runs it, with links to official sources.

Last updated 16 July 2026 Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) The national programme behind Dholera, its first industrial node What the DMIC is The Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor is a large-scale industrial and infrastructure programme built along the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor, the high-capacity rail line running between Delhi and Mumbai, and spanning several states along the way. Its aim is to develop new industrial cities served by world-class trunk infrastructure: roads, water, power and information networks delivered up front, so that industry can move in and scale quickly. [1][2] Rather than upgrading one factory or one city at a time, the DMIC is about creating whole new industrial regions in a planned, coordinated way. Why Dholera is