Coming out of a key recommendation of the McKinsey Global Institute report on India’s urbanisation in the coming decades, the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor project envisages the establishment of several new cities, industrial nodes, ports, airports and high-speed rail and road lines over six states. However, as is typical of such research and policy vision documents that have been farmed out to international corporate consultants, the project analysis relies on several arguable assumptions about resource availability, especially of water in a severely water-deficit region.
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[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/feature-article/delhi-mumbai-corridor-water-disaster-making
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/romi-khosla
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/author/vikram-soni
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/journal/economic-and-political-weekly
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/urbanisation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/industry
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/infrastructure-development
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-resources
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-demand
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-supply
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/groundwater
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/water-disputes
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/interstate-disputes
