AURIC (Aurangabad Industrial City)

AURIC (Aurangabad Industrial City, formally Aurangabad Industrial Township Limited / AITL) is the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor's first fully operational greenfield industrial smart city — a 10,000-acre integrated industrial development near Aurangabad in Maharashtra. Operationalised in 2017, AURIC was the proof-of-concept for the broader DMIC programme that included Dholera SIR (Gujarat) and Shendra Bidkin (Maharashtra).

The project is a 51:49 joint venture between DMIC Development Corporation (DMICDC) and Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC). Total infrastructure investment: ₹6,500 crore for Phase 1, including 70 km of internal road network, 850 km of integrated trunk utilities (water + sewerage + power + fiber), 4 power substations, 2 water treatment plants, and a dedicated 24 sq km dry-port + cargo handling complex.

Major anchor tenants include: Hyosung Group (Korean industrial chemicals + spandex), Toyota Boshoku (auto seating components), and ~80+ MSMEs in the auto-component + textile + pharmaceutical clusters. The city operates a unified plug-and-play service model — tenants get land + utility-ready plots + integrated logistics from a single SPV (AITL), dramatically reducing setup cycles.

AURIC is also significant as India's first city built fully on fiber-to-the-premise (FTTP) — every plot has 1 Gbps fiber connectivity from day one. Smart-utility infrastructure includes integrated electricity + water + sewerage SCADA systems with real-time monitoring.