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IPRS 3.0 to rate industrial parks

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Battle IAS current affairs title card: IPRS 3.0 to rate industrial parks (GS3 · Industry, 20 September 2025)

What happened

  • DPIIT’s Industrial Park Rating System 3.0, built with ADB support, adds sustainability, green infrastructure and logistics links as parameters [PIB].
  • The Government is developing 20 plug-and-play industrial parks and smart cities under NICDC: four done, four under construction [PIB].

Background

  • IPRS ran as a pilot in 2018 and as 2.0 in 2021 [PIB].

Why it matters

  • Ratings let investors compare parks across states.

How to use this in Mains

GS-III Infrastructure: energy, ports, roads, airports, railways; investment models

  1. As per PIB (2025-09-20): DPIIT's Industrial Park Rating System 3.0, built with ADB support, adds sustainability, green infrastructure and logistics links as parameters.
  2. Ratings let investors compare parks across states.
Quotable data point

The Government is developing 20 plug-and-play industrial parks and smart cities under NICDC: four done, four under construction.

PIB: IPRS 3.0 launched, 20 Sep 2025

Exam angle

UPSC

Prelims: IPRS.

Practice MCQs

Original practice questions (not PYQs).

Practice · UPSC

IPRS is developed by DPIIT with support from

Answer (b) & explanation

PIB.

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Official source: PIB: IPRS 3.0 launched, 20 Sep 2025

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