250 Industrial Estates During Fourth Plan

HYDERABAD, JAN. 10. Mr Sanjivayya, Union Industries Minister, said here today that establishment of assisted industrial estates of either the co-operative or joint stock type would be encouraged whatever possible.

Government industrial estates, on the other hand, would be established at as few centres as possible and only in small towns and selected “growth centres” where enough entrepreneurs could not be immediately attracted.

The programme, he said, has got to be mainly promotional and “in view of the areas on which we wished to concentrate we would continue to assume certain measure of risk.”

The Minister was inaugurating a seminar on the industrial estates programme at the Small Industry Extension Training Institute (SIET) here.

The seminar is being attend by representatives of the Planning Commission and the Central and State Governments.

Mr Sanjivayya said that the next phase of the programme for industrial estates should be the establishment of clusters of modern viable units in small towns and urban areas.

Given this type of orientation the industrial estate would continue to be a major factor in the balanced regional industrial development of the country.

This was being attempted in the Fourth Five Year Plan. A sum of Rs 18 crores was being provided for the industrial estates programme.