By IANS
Ahmedabad : A Japanese business delegation is arriving in the city Wednesday to hold talks with the state government about investments in the Gujarat sector of the ambitious $90 billion Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project.
The team is expected to comprise at least 50 industrialists. The talks with the state government are slated for Friday.
This is the first high-profile foreign delegation to arrive in Gujarat after the December 2007 elections. The delegation, apart from visiting Gandhi Ashram in the city, will visit an air-conditioner unit of Hitachi at Kadi, about 25 km from here.
The 1,483 km Delhi-Mumbai corridor will stretch across six states – Delhi, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra. The corridor will be built along the same lines as the Tokyo-Osaka industrial belt.
The industrial corridor will have a 4,000-MW power plant, three ports and six airports, apart from connectivity with existing seaports.
In Gujarat, the area under the project will cover 120,706 sq km. It will have two special investment regions. One will be the Bharuch-Dahej investment region that will come up in the phase one of the project. Along with it, the Vadodara-Ankleshwar sector will be developed as special industrial area.
In phase two, Ahmedabad-Dholera special investment region will come up along with Surat- Umbergoan as the special industrial area.