Industries to set up units at Dharwad

Industries to set up units at Dharwad

Aug 2, 2010, 09.41pm IST

DHARWAD: Mahindra and Mahindra and few other industries have expressed their willingness to establish their units at Dharwad. Minister for large and medium industries, Murugesh Nirani, said a JCB unit with an investment of Rs 500 crore will be set up at Dharwad.

Nirani told The Times of India on Monday that Baba Kalyani group will shift its proposed unit from Bangalore to Dharwad. Also, Hero Honda, which proposed to produce one lakh vehicles every year at Dharwad has now decided to manufacture two lakh vehicles per year, the minister disclosed.

Speaking on the government's future plans, the industries minister said it will introduce a new scheme __ `Udgyoga, Uddime' (employment, industry) __ to reduce unemployment among rural youths. Separate offices will be established at Gulbarga, Belgaum, Mysore and Bangalore divisions to implement the scheme effectively. The Centre will join the state government in sponsoring this scheme.

M&M may set up unit at Dharwad

M & M may set up unit at Dharwad

BS Reporter | 2010-08-03 01:50:00

Mahindra and Mahindra, and a few other industries have expressed their willingness to establish their units at Dharwad. Minister for large and medium industries Murugesh Nirani said an earth-moving equipment unit with an investment of Rs 500 crore would be set up at Dharwad.

Nirani told Business Standard here on Monday the Baba Kalyani group was planning to shift its proposed unit in Bangalore to Dharwad. Hero Honda which proposed to produce 100,000 vehicles per annum at its proposed plant at Dharwad to be set up over an area of 500 acres, had decided to produce 200,000 vehicles, Nirani said.

The government will introduce a new scheme — Udyoga, Uddime (employment, industry) to make rural youths employable. Separate offices will be established at Gulbarga, Belgaum, Mysore and Bangalore divisions to implement the scheme effectively.

The Centre will join the state in sponsoring the scheme. Stating Karnataka’s share in India’s exports was 13.3 per cent, Nirani said, efforts were being made to stabilise export ratio.

Earlier, Nirani inaugurated the computerised trade information centre of the Vishweshwaraiah Industrial Trade Centre (VITC) and National Centre for Trade Information (NCTI) at the district industries centre premises in Dharwad and participated in the founders’ day programme at the Karnataka Chamber of Commerce and Industries at Hubli.

End of JNNURM Dream for Twin Cities, but in for UIDSSMT

The Government is planning to extend the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM) to some more cities in the country. It was proposed to include the following 28 cities/urban agglomerations with population of 5 lakh and above under the Urban Infrastructure and Governance (UIG) component of Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission(JNNURM):

S.No.

Name of the State

Name of Town

1.

Andhra Pradesh

Guntur

Warangal

2.

Chattisgarh

Durg- Bhilai Nagar

3.

Gujarat

Bhavnagar

Jamnagar

4.

Karnataka

Belgaum

Hubli-Dharwad

Mangalore

5.

Kerala

Kozhikode

6.

Madhya Pradesh

Gwalior

7.

Maharashtra

Amravati

Aurangabad

Bhiwandi

Kolhapur

Solapur

8.

Orissa

Cuttak

9.

Punjab

Jalandhar

10.

Rajasthan

Bikaner

Jodhpur

Kota

11.

Tamilnadu

Salem

Tiruchirappalli

Tiruppur

12.

Uttar Pradesh

Aligarh

Bareilly

Ghaziabad

Gorakhpur

Moradabad

On account of resource constraints, these cities could not be included in UIG of JNNURM.

Public private partnership can play a significant role in supplementing Government’s efforts of building infrastructure in urban areas. JNNURM encourages urban loal bodies to use public private partnership for this purpose.

Request for inclusion under UIG of JNNURM have been received from a number of cities including Warangal, Karamsad, Gandhinagar, Hubli-Dharward, Gulbarga, Belgaum, Gaya, Biharshariff, Pawapur, Nalanda, Rajgir, Sultanpur-Lodhi, Kurkshetra- Pehowa, Gurgaon, Aurangabad, Vrindavan, Kurnool, Jodhpur, Gwalior, Guntur, Panipat, Bellary, Calicut, Darjeeling, Klimpong & Kurseong, Deoghar, Sambalpur, Dhule, Malegaon, Kolhapur, Port Blair, Kaithal, Siliguri, Haldia, Amravati, Solapur and all cities of Bihar with population above 2 lakh.

Cities that are not covered under this component are eligible for coverage under another component of JNNURM, namely Urban Infrastructure Development Scheme for Small and Medium Towns (UIDSSMT) subject to availability of funds.

This information was given by Shri Saugata Roy, Minister of State, Urban Development in reply to a question in Lok Sabha Today.