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While the Union Budget 2026 laid a beardown nationalist foundation, the lack of a dedicated Coastal Economic Corridor for the West Coast was a important missed accidental for Mangaluru and coastal Karnataka, the Mangaluru-based Kanara Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) has stated.
In a connection connected Sunday (February 1, 2026), KCCI President P.B. Ahmed Mudassar said Industry expected targeted fiscal enactment for the projected “Silicon Beach” initiative, deeper concern successful underutilized deep-water ports, and a mission-mode propulsion for the bluish system to integrate the portion much efficaciously into planetary proviso chains. The exclusion of coastal Karnataka from the projected high-speed obstruction maturation corridors limits connectivity-led development.
Without focused incentives for exertion clusters and port-based industries successful Tier-II coastal cities, the region’s strategical imaginable remains under-leveraged. The authorities should code this spread successful consequent argumentation actions, helium said.
“Despite beardown maritime improvement enactment successful the Budget, determination was nary announcement connected establishing a Central Maritime University oregon dedicated maritime higher acquisition institute successful Mangaluru, which was a long-standing request to leverage coastal skills and commercialized potential. The stakeholders had hoped budgetary backing would formalise maritime education, boost specialised training, and fortify the city’s relation successful shipping, logistics and water system sectors,” helium said.
Mr. Mudassar added “The Union Budget has projected a Coconut Promotion Scheme to rise output by replacing old, low-yield trees with improved varieties. A dedicated programme was projected for cashew and cocoa, to fortify home earthy worldly proviso and amended export competitiveness. Unless the arecanut system was addressed, the wide interaction of the measures for the Mangaluru portion mightiness stay limited.”
“A taxation vacation until 2047 was projected for overseas firms delivering planetary unreality services from India-based information centres. This incentivises hyperscale unreality and AI infrastructure investments successful India. A Deloitte-KDEM survey has identified Mangaluru arsenic highly cost-efficient coastal determination for mounting up integer infrastructure. With stronger fibre web and dedicated power, Mangalore tin pull concern indispensable for maturation of integer infrastructure,” the KCCI president said.
The Budget connection to found 5 Regional Medical Hubs via PPP provided accidental for Mangaluru to alteration into a planetary healthcare destination. Mangaluru was adjacent to pilgrimage centres namely Udupi, Dharmasthala, Kukke Subrahmanya, Kateel and Kollur. It besides has bully prime healthcare strategy provided by backstage aesculapian colleges and AYUSH centres. Better civic infrastructure and amenities successful temple towns volition greatly amended pilgrim acquisition and increases repetition travel, Mr. Mudassar said.
