The Chhattisgarh government has stopped accepting applications for setting up new plants in the industrial areas of the state due to shortage of land.
The industrial areas in the state are developed by the state-run Chhattisgarh State Industrial Development Corporation (CSIDC). There is no land left there to accommodate new industries.
“The state government is now developing new industrial areas and soon the problem will be solved,” CSIDC Chairman Rajesh Govardhan said. Due to some technical problems, the process was getting delayed, he added. The new industrial areas will come up in Raipur, Bilaspur, Raigarh and Rajnandgaon districts.
Sources said most of the industrialists were willing to set up industries in the periphery of the state capital that already has five industrial areas in Urla, Siltara, Bhanpuri, Rawabhata and Borjhara. In these industrial areas, surplus plants had come up, causing serious pollution problem.
The industrialists had advocated that Raipur city was most convenient for transporting raw material as compared to other places in the state. Though more than 600 small and medium enterprises exist in and around the capital city, more than 100 had lined up to set up new plants in the area. The CSIDC had now stopped accepting applications from the industrialists proposing to set up plants in the existing industrial areas. The corporation had officially put up notice on the notice-board underlining its decision.
