Govt notifies special investment zone
Govt move expected to help DadriNoidaGhaziabad region to emerge as state’s manufacturing hub
Other states are following our industrial policy. Over the last 15 years, previous regimes in the state remained disconnected with industrialists and businessmen. SATISH MAHANA, Industrial development minister
LUCKNOW: The Dadri-Noida-Ghaziabad region will soon emerge as the manufacturing hub of Uttar Pradesh as the state government has notified 80 villages in this area as a special investment zone under the UP Industrial Region Development Act 1976.
The state government has nominated the Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority (UPSIDA) as the nodal agency for implementation of the project.
Industrial development minister Satish Mahana on Wednesday said the Dadri-Ghaziabad-Noida investment region was identified as one of the seven investment regions in the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) passing through the districts of west UP.
An integrated industrial township will be established in Greater Noida to drive manufacturing activity in the region and promote sustainable development, he said at a press conference here.
Besides deciding to give concession in stamp duty, the state government was developing a multi-model logistics hub and a multi model transport hub in the Dadri area, he said.
The state government has selected three spots in Kanpur, Allahabad and Aligarh to give a momentum to industrial activities in the Amritsar-Delhi-Kolkata Industrial Corridor Project (eastern dedicated freight corridor). Lee and Associates acquired 2500-acre land in the Bhaupur area of Kanpur for an integrated manufacturing cluster, he said.
Mahana also said the state government set December 31 as the deadline for the entrepreneurs who have been allotted plots in the industrial area, but have not set up industrial units. If they fail to set up units, they will have to surrender the land, he said.
The industrial development department, which has a land bank of 5000 acres in various districts, has started allotting 150 plots in Noida for the establishment of industrial units.
To a question, he said there was no plan to revive 21 spinning mills of the UP Cooperative Spinning Mills Federation Limited and the UP State Textile Corporation Limited in the districts that have large weavers’ settlements.
The mills have remained closed for three decades and the technology used there has become obsolete. The state government will come up with a new scheme for the establishment of the mills, he said.
Mahana said the new industrial policy was drafted within 100 days of formation of the BJP government in UP.
“Other states are following our industrial policy,” he said. Over the last 15 years, previous regimes in the state remained disconnected with industrialists and businessmen.
The importance given to industrial development could be gauged from the fact that an independent department was functioning under a cabinet rank minister. The state government had allotted Rs 35 crore for promotion activities to attract investment in UP, he said. The industrialists planning to close their units and shift to other states were urged to stay back, he said. He also said Samsung was likely to invest Rs 4915 crore, Intex Rs 372 crore and Green Ply Limited Rs 375 crore in the state.
He said 50-acre land was allotted to Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd (HPCL) in Sandila area for setting up an ethanol unit. The accent on ease of doing business and a single window clearance policy will give a thrust to industrial activities in the state, he said.
To promote industrial activities in the backward regions of Bundelkhand and Purvanchal, the state government had decided to invite private players to set up industrial parks and agro parks there, he said.