Madhya Pradesh: Infrastructure: roads, rail, power

The official sources describe Madhya Pradesh's infrastructure in broad terms: a large road network, the rail routes across India passing through the state, airports linking major cities, telecom coverage, industrial areas, and power stations run by the state's generating company MPPGCL. Detailed figures for rail track, airports or road types are not given in these sources.

Roads

• The state portal's investment page gives a road network of 99403 km.
• The portal's state profile says road density is increasing continuously, with present road length over 80 thousand kms. The two pages give different figures and do not state the year of either.
• The portal describes the state as located at the centre of India, close to major markets and tier-one cities, and presents it as suited to be a centralised manufacturing and distribution hub.

Rail, air and telecom

• The rail route connecting different parts of India passes through Madhya Pradesh.
• Rail Coach Factory Bhopal is one of the notable Central Government managed organisations in the state.
• Major airports link all major cities such as Delhi, Mumbai, Varanasi, Nagpur, Bengaluru, Hyderabad and Chennai.
• BSNL and private operators provide telephone and cellular services, and internet access is easy across the state.

Industrial infrastructure

• 231 notified industrial areas.
• 19 growth centres.
• 4 notified Special Economic Zones (SEZs).
• 12 product-specific industrial parks.
• Over 16,000 hectares of land for industrial use at various locations.
• Big industries are mostly in Indore, Bhopal, Gwalior and Jabalpur. Other central units include BHEL (Bhopal), the Government Ordnance Factory (Jabalpur), the Currency Printing Press (Dewas) and the Alkaloid Factory (Neemuch).
• The single window secretariat for investors is MPTRIFAC.

Water and power potential

• Irrigation is mostly dependent on major rivers such as the Narmada, Chambal, Tapti, Betwa, Sone, Shipra, Kali Sindh and Tava.
• The Chambal and Narmada valleys offer good potential for hydroelectric power.
• Besides thermal and hydro generation, many other conventional and non-conventional power projects are in place or in progress.

Power stations of MPPGCL

• Total installed capacity: 5492 MW; MP share 5498.53 MW.
• Thermal: 4570 MW in all. The largest are Shri Singaji TPS Dongalia Phase II (1320 MW, 2x660 MW) and Shri Singaji TPS Dongalia (1200 MW, 2x600 MW). Others are Sanjay Gandhi, Birsinghpur I and II (420 MW each) and Extn (500 MW), Satpura IV (500 MW) and Amarkantak Extn (210 MW).
• Hydro: 915 MW installed; MP share 921.53 MW, which includes 135.5 MW, or 50% of the 271MW of Rajasthan's Jawaharsagar and Ranapratapsagar stations.
• The biggest hydro station is Ban Sagar I, Tons (315 MW); others include Pench, Totladoh (160 MW, MP share 106.67 MW), Gandhi Sagar (115 MW, MP share 57.50 MW), Rani Awanti Bai Bargi (90 MW), Madhikheda (60 MW), Bansagar-III Deolond (60 MW) and Rajghat (45 MW, MP share 26.86 MW).
• Solar: 7 MW, from the Rataguradiya Ground Mounted Solar Project.