The project is intended to bring about major expansion of infrastructure and industry in the states along the route of the corridor.
[1] The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Piyush Goyal has proposed the establishment of a ₹5,749 crore (US$660 million) for the first phase.
The Minister said these projects are important in terms of boosting the manufacturing sector in the country as it would help in creating millions of jobs.
The cities which will covered by the ADKIC Project are Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Ambala, Saharanpur, Delhi, Roorkee, Haridwar, Dehradun, Meerut, Muzaffarnagar, Bareilly, Aligarh, Kanpur, Lucknow, Allahabad, Varanasi, Gaya, Hazaribagh, Bokaro Steel City, Dhanbad, Asansol, Durgapur, Burdwan and Kolkata.
[4] The corridor would be built along the 1,839 km long Eastern Dedicated Freight corridor between Khurja and Mugalsarai, and will leverage the Inland Waterway System being developed along National Waterway 1 which extends from Allahabad to Haldia.