The Punjab authorities plan to amass one other 250 acres of land and undertake a requirement survey for the proposed mega textile park in Ludhiana below the PM-MITRA scheme.
The State authorities has pitched a website in Kum Kalan Tehsil of Ludhiana, which has one of many largest textile clusters in north India, for the textile parks mission to be arrange below the Prime Minister Mega Built-in Textile Area and Attire (PM-MITRA) scheme. In all, seven parks have been deliberate by the central authorities in several elements of the nation. Availability of contiguous and encumbrance-free land parcel of over 1,000 acres together with different textiles-related services is main necessities for consideration of any website below the scheme having a complete outlay of ₹4,445 cr.
Director-cum-secretary, industries and commerce, Sibin C stated there’s requirement of 250 acres of land for which the method has already been initiated to satisfy the 1,000-acre land requirement for the mission. Of the location proposed by the state for the big-ticket mission, the Higher Ludhiana Space Improvement Authority (GLADA), a particular improvement authority of the housing and concrete improvement division, owns 957 acres, however 197 acres out of this land parcel is at present below litigation.
The extra land requirement emerged following the discussions a group of the Union Ministry of textiles led by particular secretary VK Singh had with senior officers of industries division, district administration and GLADA in addition to representatives of textile trade throughout its go to the state about 10 days in the past. An official aware about the discussions stated the central group identified the necessity for 1,000 acres encumbrance-free land with contiguity. “As parts of the land accessible with GLADA are below litigation or below keep by the judicial courts, extra space must be acquired to fill the minimal land requirement for the mission,” stated the official who didn’t need to be named.
The state industries division has written to the principal secretary, division of housing and concrete improvement, relating to fulfilling the extra land requirement on the earliest. Apart from a requirement survey from the trade, one other situation raised by the textiles ministry’s group through the discussions was highway connectivity to the proposed website, particularly strategy highway to the Ludhiana-Rupnagar expressway, to the proposed website, together with its seemingly date of completion. “These are stipulations for contemplating the location for organising the textile park within the first part of the scheme,” the official stated.
Punjab is among the many high 10 states for textile and garment exports, supplying primarily to the US, UAE, UK and Australia.
As per the scheme notified by the central authorities, the textile parks will likely be arrange at greenfield (recent) or brownfield (current) website areas in several states to create an built-in worth chain proper from spinning, weaving, processing/dyeing and printing to garment manufacturing at a single location. For a greenfield park, the central authorities’s capital improvement assist will likely be 30 percent of mission value with a cap of ₹500 cr. The park will likely be developed by a particular objective automobile to be owned by the state authorities and the central authorities in a public-private partnership (PPP) mode. The federal government hopes to generate about one-lakh direct and two-lakh oblique jobs per park.
