Jaipur: Rajasthan's first cargo airport and bullet train would debut in Alwar. The airport would come up in Neemrana on the Jaipur-Delhi highway.
The high-speed train would be a shuttle service that would run between Delhi and Alwar at speeds ranging between 160 and 180km per hour. Both projects have been lined up as part of an aerotropolis — a modern city modelled around airports to promote aviation intensive business — to facilitate exports and shipments along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor passing through the state.
"The cargo airport will come up between Ajarka and Kotkasingh villages near Neemarana," a highly placed official in the industries department said. This would allow industries along the DMIC freight corridor and business units in Neemrana, Shahjahanpur, Bhiwadi and Behror to ship their cargo directly to foreign countries, the official said.
RIICO chairman Sunil Arora said infrastructure improvement would be a quantum leap in propelling Alwar as a major business hub of India. According to officials, the cargo airport will be a part of an aerotropolis. An aerotropolis is a new urban concept where economies of emerging cities are planned around aviation intensive businesses like manufacturing and exports, warehousing, telecommunications, business hotels and offices, industrial parks and exhibition centres.
20/07/11 DNA/Daily Bahaskar
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