Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor

Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield corridor

Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor- Relevance for UPSC Exam

GS Paper 3: Indian Economy– Infrastructure: Energy, Ports, Roads, Airports, Railways etc.

Recently, Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Shri Nitin Gadkari has said the Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield corridor is being constructed in a full capacity.
Bikaner to Jodhpur section of 277 km is targeted to be completed and opened to public by the end of this year.

About: Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor is one of the most important Greenfield corridors being developed by National Highway authority of India (NHAI).
- Complete Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield corridor is targeted to be completed by September 2023.
Length: Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor is 1,224 km long and connects Amritsar – Bhatinda – Jamnagar. It is also called as Amritsar – Bhatinda – Jamnagar corridor.
Cost: Amritsar – Bhatinda – Jamnagar corridor is being developed at a total capital cost of Rs 26,000 Crore.
Important Cities, Town and States to be connected: Amritsar – Bhatinda – Jamnagar corridor will connect the economic towns of Amritsar, Bhatinda, Sangaria, Bikaner, Sanchore, Samakhiyali and Jamnagar across the four states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Gujarat.
- Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor is will connect the northern industrial and agricultural centres of the country with the key ports of western India like Jamnagar and Kandla.
Significance: Amritsar-Jamnagar Greenfield Corridor will help boost the industrial revolution connecting industrial belt of Baddi, Bhatinda and Ludhiana through spurs and the state of Jammu and Kashmir through Delhi – Amritsar – Katra Expressway.
- The trans-Rajasthan corridor will significantly reduce the transit time and logistics cost to fuel, will help to stand tall in the competitive global export marketplace.

A greenfield project is built from scratch and lacks the constraints of prior work on the site of the project.
- It means that there is no existing building or infrastructure.
Green Field Project can include infrastructural, industrial, manufacturing and urban development projects, built on greenfield land with no existing development.

Brownfield project” is refers generally to commercial/industrial land that will soon be upgraded.
Brownfield properties can be large (for example, manufacturing sites and industrial plants)or small (abandoned dry cleaners, gas stations), and they are not necessarily contaminated.

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