XcellInfra|National Industrial Corridor Development Programme
Greenfield industrial cities are being built along India's freight corridors. Each one needs a digital backbone on day one.
NICDP plans 11 corridors and 20 approved industrial nodes on the Dedicated Freight Corridors, highways, ports and airports. Here is where the programme stands in November 2026, from government sources, and the cloud, OT security and connectivity XcellHost runs for corridor cities and the factories that move in.
Digital backbone byXcellHost · MumbaiTier IV DC · 24×7 NOC & SOC · since 1999
11industrial corridors under NICDPNICDC · PIB 26 Feb 2026
20industrial nodes approved · 4 completePIB · Lok Sabha, 4 Aug 2026
₹28,602 crfor 12 industrial smart citiesCabinet · 28 Aug 2024
430 plots4,552 acres allotted in the 4 completed citiesDPIIT · as of Oct 2025
2,843 kmDedicated Freight Corridors, both commissionedPIB · 7 Aug & 8 Sep 2026
₹16,173 crreleased by DPIIT to NICDITPIB · 4 Aug 2026
What NICDP is
New industrial cities, planned on the freight network and built ahead of demand.
The official framing, the institutions that run it and how a corridor city is financed.
The National Industrial Corridor Development Programme builds greenfield industrial cities along India's main transport arteries. The Western Dedicated Freight Corridor is the backbone of the Delhi–Mumbai corridor and the Eastern DFC of the Amritsar–Kolkata corridor; national highways, ports and airports serve the others. The cities are planned before industry arrives, with developed plots, trunk utilities and connections in place, so a manufacturer can lease land and start building straight away. The government calls this plug-and-play, and the townships also follow a walk-to-work layout with housing near the factories.
The programme comprises 32 projects under 11 corridors, to be developed in four phases (PIB, 4 Aug 2021). Twenty industrial nodes have been approved so far, twelve of them in the last five years. Four are complete: Dholera in Gujarat, Shendra-Bidkin in Maharashtra, and the integrated industrial townships at Greater Noida (UP) and Vikram Udyogpuri (MP). The other 16 are at different stages of implementation (Lok Sabha reply, 4 Aug 2026).
Cabinet decision · 28 August 2024
The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs approved 12 new industrial nodes at an estimated ₹28,602 crore across 10 states and 6 corridors. They are to be greenfield smart cities "built ahead of demand" on plug-and-play and walk-to-work lines, aligned with PM GatiShakti, with an estimated 10 lakh direct and up to 30 lakh indirect jobs. PIB's February 2026 explainer puts their investment potential at ₹1,52,757 crore over about 25,975 acres.
NICDCNational Industrial Corridor Development Corporation
Incorporated in January 2008 as the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), later renamed NICDC. It plans, develops and coordinates the programme.
NICDITNational Industrial Corridor Development & Implementation Trust
Re-designated on 7 December 2016 from the DMIC Project Implementation Trust Fund. DPIIT has released ₹16,172.95 crore to it, and it has passed ₹14,569.97 crore on to project SPVs. Budget 2026-27 provides ₹3,000 crore.
State SPVsOne per node, Centre + State
The state contributes land. The Centre contributes equity and, where needed, debt. EPC contractors build the internal trunk infrastructure. Construction typically takes 36–48 months from EPC award.
MonitoringApex Monitoring Authority · DPIIT
Progress is tracked through PRAGATI and the PM GatiShakti portal, where external connections such as bulk water, power, telecom and roads have been mapped.
Process steps follow PIB's 4 August 2026 Lok Sabha reply. XcellHost is a private company. It is not part of NICDP and is not affiliated with NICDC, DPIIT or any state SPV.
Tool · Corridor explorer
Eleven corridors, twenty nodes. Click a corridor or a city.
A drawn schematic, not to scale and not an official map. Each card gives the official facts with their source and date, plus the XcellHost services that matter there.
CompleteUnder wayApproved Aug 2024
SCHEMATIC · NOT TO SCALE · NOT AN OFFICIAL MAP
The 20 approved nodes
Four complete, four close, twelve approved in 2024.
Project cost and land area are from the annexures to PIB's 4 August 2026 Lok Sabha reply. Filter by status.
Dholera SIR, Gujarat. 920 sq km in all. Infrastructure is in place across the 22.54 sq km activation area, including the ABCD building with the City Integrated Operations Centre, a 72 km road network with an underground utility corridor for water, gas and ICT, a 50 MLD water treatment plant, a 20 MLD CETP and a SCADA-enabled 400/220 kV substation.
What the completed cities have attracted. PIB's February 2026 explainer, citing the Economic Survey 2025-26, says the Phase-I cities have attracted ₹2.02 lakh crore of investment in electronics, renewables, pharmaceuticals and EVs. DPIIT's December 2025 year-end review counts 430 plots (4,552 acres) allotted across the four cities as of October 2025.
The Cabinet's August 2024 release named eleven locations for the twelve projects. PIB's 26 February 2026 explainer and the 4 August 2026 reply list Hisar (Haryana) as the twelfth. ₹ crore figures are project costs, not private investment.
ICT & smart city features
A corridor city runs on six digital layers. Pick one to see what it needs.
The official documents describe ICT-enabled utilities, smart city planning and technology-enabled administration. In practice that means the systems below. The XcellHost mapping is our own.
Layer 01 · Security & resilience
Everything above it depends on this layer
A city operations centre, its SCADA links and its citizen portals are attractive targets. CERT-In's April 2022 directions require cyber incidents to be reported within six hours and logs to be kept for 180 days in India. OT networks need segmentation along IEC 62443 zones and conduits, and the ICCC needs a second site it can fail over to.
24×7 SOC across IT and OT telemetry
OT asset inventory, segmentation and remote-access control
Managed DR with tested RTO/RPO and drills
CERT-In 6-hour reporting runbook and 180-day log store
Corridor cities run their own water treatment plants, CETPs, sewage plants and substations. Dholera's 400/220 kV substation is SCADA-enabled. Each plant has PLCs, RTUs, smart meters and sensors whose data must reach the operations centre without exposing the control network.
Device identity and certificates for meters and sensors
Edge nodes near plants for low-latency control data
Dholera's underground utility corridor carries ICT alongside water and gas beneath its 72 km road network. On top of that physical layer the city, its utilities and every tenant need managed WAN links, private connections to the cloud and Wi-Fi in public and plant spaces.
SD-WAN between ICCC, plants and DR site
Private connections to cloud regions
Managed Wi-Fi for plants, offices and public areas
Corridor projects are planned on the PM GatiShakti National Master Plan, which DPIIT says had 57 ministries and departments and about 1,700 data layers on board by December 2025. Inside a city the same idea runs at plot level: a GIS base map, utility networks and a digital twin that can model demand before a new tenant connects.
BHAVYA, the plug-and-play industrial parks scheme notified in April 2026, explicitly calls for ICT-enabled administration and single-window approvals. Corridor SPVs run similar portals for land allotment, building approvals, utility connections and billing. These are internet-facing applications that hold investor and resident data.
The city's control room, and its single point of failure
Dholera's City Integrated Operations Centre supports real-time surveillance, traffic and transport, utility management, disaster response and citizen services. An ICCC joins video, SCADA, GIS and service data on one screen. It needs high availability, long video retention, a DR site and round-the-clock security monitoring.
Both freight corridors now run end to end. Logistics data rides on APIs.
Corridor cities were sited on these routes. Here is their status, with sources.
WDFC
Western DFC · Dadri ↔ JNPT1,506 km · backbone of the Delhi–Mumbai corridor
Commissioned
EDFC
Eastern DFC · Ludhiana ↔ Sonnagar1,337 km · backbone of the Amritsar–Kolkata corridor
Commissioned
On 8 September 2026 the Prime Minister dedicated the last three Western DFC sections (326 route km, including New Saphale–New JNPT). PIB says the DFC network now runs over its full length. The Railways' 7 August 2026 Rajya Sabha reply puts DFC traffic at about 443 trains a day. Budget 2026-27 announced a new Dankuni–Surat freight corridor and an East Coast Industrial Corridor with a node at Durgapur.
PM GatiShakti National Master Plan
A GIS platform used to plan infrastructure across ministries. DPIIT reports 57 ministries and departments onboarded and about 1,700 data layers (731 ministry and 969 state) as of December 2025. It is now open to the private sector.
ULIP · Unified Logistics Interface Platform
Logistics data from government systems, exposed as APIs. As of July 2026 PIB counts 46 integrated systems across 12 ministries and departments, 142 APIs, more than 2,000 data fields, more than 260 applications and over 450 crore API transactions.
Logistics Data Bank
Tracks EXIM containers across India using only the container number. DPIIT says it covers 18 ports (31 terminals) and 5,800 railway stations through FOIS. LDB and ULIP are run by NICDC Logistics Data Services Ltd (NLDSL).
For tenants, these platforms mean API integrations with ERP, WMS and TMS systems. XcellHost hosts those integrations on Logistics Cloud and Manufacturing Cloud.
What XcellHost runs
One provider for the city and for the factories inside it.
Two audiences, one stack: the SPV or city operator, and the industrial tenants moving onto plug-and-play plots.
* DR site is a partner data centre in India. Partners other than Microsoft (XcellHost is a Microsoft Gold Partner) are marked *.
Tool · Factory day-1 IT stack
Moving onto a corridor plot? Size the IT you need on day one.
Every rupee below is the price on an existing XcellHost service page. INR, excluding 18% GST.
User bundle
Recommended day-1 bundle—
Monthly₹0
One-time₹0
First month incl. GST₹0
Licences (Microsoft 365) and firewall hardware are extra; FortiGate* 30G hardware is ₹24,999 on our Fortinet page. OT Site Assessment prices are per site. Indicative · excl. 18% GST.
Tool · ICCC & smart-city readiness
Tick what is already in place. Download the checklist with your gaps.
Eighteen controls a city operations centre and its utilities are usually asked about. Your answers stay in this browser.
0/ 100
Starting out
Packages
Three ways to start, priced from our own service pages.
Monthly packages add up existing XcellHost line items. INR, excluding 18% GST.
Corridor City Digital Blueprint
An assessment of the city's or park's digital design before tenders go out.
Line items carry the same prices as the linked XcellHost pages: Government Cloud and General Compute (vCPU, RAM, NVMe), Cloud DR (Managed DR, immutable storage, server backup), Security Operations (SOC), Managed Microsoft Sentinel (CERT-In retainer), SMB Cloud (user bundle), Managed SD-WAN, Fortinet services, Managed Wi-Fi. Most of those prices are themselves marked indicative. * The ₹1,49,999 Blueprint uses the price of the park digital-maturity assessment on our Industrial Park Digital Transformation page, which is an indicative placeholder. Confirm with XcellHost. *DR site is a partner data centre in India.
Configure
Pick a package, size it, choose a term. Total in rupees, GST shown.
Package
User bundle
Term
Estimate—
Subtotal₹0
GST 18%₹0
Total₹0
Monthly run-rate ₹0 excl. GST
Indicative · excl. 18% GST until the total line. * Blueprint and private-connection prices are placeholders on their source pages; confirm with XcellHost.
It is the Government of India's programme to build greenfield industrial cities along major transport corridors. The cities are planned as smart cities with plug-and-play plots and are built ahead of demand. It has 11 corridors and 32 projects to be developed in four phases. DPIIT runs it through NICDC and the NICDIT trust.
Delhi–Mumbai (DMIC), Amritsar–Kolkata (AKIC), Chennai–Bengaluru (CBIC), the CBIC extension to Kochi via Coimbatore, Vizag–Chennai (VCIC), Bengaluru–Mumbai (BMIC), Hyderabad–Nagpur (HNIC), Hyderabad–Warangal (HWIC), Hyderabad–Bengaluru (HBIC), the Odisha Economic Corridor (OEC) and Delhi–Nagpur (DNIC). Budget 2026-27 also announced an East Coast Industrial Corridor with a node at Durgapur.
Four: Dholera Special Investment Region (Gujarat), Shendra-Bidkin Industrial Area (Maharashtra), and the integrated industrial townships at Greater Noida (Uttar Pradesh) and Vikram Udyogpuri (Madhya Pradesh). As of October 2025, 430 plots covering 4,552 acres had been allotted across them, according to DPIIT.
On 28 August 2024 the Cabinet approved 12 nodes at an estimated ₹28,602 crore: Khurpia (Uttarakhand), Rajpura-Patiala (Punjab), Dighi (Maharashtra), Palakkad (Kerala), Agra and Prayagraj (Uttar Pradesh), Gaya (Bihar), Zaheerabad (Telangana), Orvakal and Kopparthy (Andhra Pradesh), Jodhpur-Pali-Marwar (Rajasthan) and Hisar (Haryana). The original release named eleven locations; PIB's later documents list Hisar as the twelfth.
Yes. The Eastern DFC (Ludhiana–Sonnagar, 1,337 km) and the Western DFC (Dadri–JNPT, 1,506 km) are both commissioned. The last Western DFC sections, including the link to JNPT, were dedicated on 8 September 2026, and PIB says the network now runs over its full length.
Developed plots with roads, water, power, sewerage, effluent treatment and ICT trunk infrastructure already in place. A tenant takes the plot, connects and builds, instead of arranging utilities itself. IT is still the tenant's job, which is what our day-1 IT stack builder sizes.
An Integrated Command and Control Centre combines cameras, traffic, utility SCADA, GIS and citizen services on one platform. Dholera calls its version the City Integrated Operations Centre. If the ICCC is down, operators lose sight of the whole city, so it needs a second site with tested failover, long video retention and 24×7 security monitoring.
Government bodies are generally expected to use MeitY-empanelled cloud offerings, and SPVs often follow the same rule in their tenders. Check your own tender terms. XcellHost is MeitY empanelled and hosts in its Mumbai Tier IV data centre. See Government Cloud.
CERT-In's directions of 28 April 2022 require reporting of listed cyber incidents within six hours and 180 days of log retention in India. The DPDP Rules, notified on 13 November 2025, apply to personal data of residents, workers and investors; most core duties apply from 13 May 2027. Utility OT teams commonly design to IEC 62443.
No. XcellHost is a private managed cloud and security company, founded in 1999 and based in Mumbai. We are not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of India, DPIIT, NICDC, NICDIT or any state SPV. We provide the hosting, network and security services that city operators and tenants buy.
ICCC Hosting & DR is ₹1,12,405 a month plus ₹59,999 one-time onboarding. Tenant Factory IT Starter is ₹33,371 a month plus ₹27,497 one-time setup. The Corridor City Digital Blueprint is ₹1,49,999 one-time and is an indicative placeholder. All prices exclude 18% GST and come from our own service pages.
Sources
Where every number and date on this page comes from.
Checked on 11 November 2026. Official sources only: PIB, DPIIT, NICDC and the Government of Gujarat.
PIB — Travelling Across the Industrial Corridors of India · 26 Feb 2026. Covers the 11 corridors and corridor-wise nodes, NICDC (DMICDC, Jan 2008), NICDIT (7 Dec 2016, ₹3,000 cr BE 2026-27), ₹2.02 lakh cr investment (Economic Survey 2025-26), ₹1,52,757 cr potential, 25,975 acres, Dholera at 920 sq km and the East Coast corridor.
PIB — 2025 Year End Review, DPIIT · 10 Dec 2025. Covers 20 projects in 13 states and 7 corridors, 430 plots (4,552 acres) to Oct 2025, PM GatiShakti (57 ministries, ~1,700 layers), ULIP and the Logistics Data Bank.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Government of India, DPIIT, NICDC, NICDIT, DFCCIL or any state government or SPV. Government names belong to their owners. This page summarises public sources as of 11 November 2026 for general information. It is not investment, legal or regulatory advice. Maps and hero scenes are drawn schematics, not to scale and not official maps. No government emblem or logo is used.
Building a corridor city or moving a plant onto one? Start with the digital backbone.
Tell us the node, the systems and the go-live date. We size the ICCC, OT security and tenant IT and send a written quotation with GST.