Mysore all set for exponential growth

Mysore is poised to grow in a big way in the next few years, when some of the proposals of the Karnataka Government take shape.

Work on the much-delayed upgradation of the Mandakalli airport on the Mysore-Nanjangud road is likely to commence shortly. A memorandum of understanding is being signed in this regard on September 10 and 11.

As part of the ensuing Dasara celebrations, an investors' meet is being organised in Mysore on October 20 and 21 to attract more investments in Mysore and surrounding areas.

The Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board will take up proposals on developing new industrial areas around Mysore and in the Mysore-Nanjangud sector, to meet the infrastructural needs of new industries, planning to set up their shops in this fast growing city.

H D Kote taluk has been selected under 'Kaigarika Vikas' scheme for creation of infrastructural facilities to check industry and labour migration to urban areas. All industry requirements like land, water, and power will be developed at the village level to attract new industries to this backward district.

Steps are also being taken for promotion of tourism in and around Mysore, by developing the tourist spots, making them more attractive.

Speaking to Business Standard, Minister for Labour and Wakfs Tanvir Sait, who is also the minister in charge of Mysore district, said in the next few years, the Karnataka government proposed to create 15-20 lakh jobs in the State and a major chunk of it will be in Mysore.

The schemes the government was taking up to take the State further in industry and job growth comprised six apparel parks, six food parks, a centre for technological know-how and marketing skills, upgradation of Industrial Training Institutes, and facelift of employment exchanges as employment parks.

Under these proposals, Mysore will have an apparel park and a food park. The ITIs in Mysore and Hubli will be upgraded as automobile training institutes, the Hassan ITI will concentrate on developing CNC machinist skills, the two ITIs in Bangalore, electrical and electronics, and CNC machinists, and the Gulbarga ITI, electronics.

The employment exchanges already functioning as employment parks will be web-based shortly and online recruitment facilities will be provided so that companies need not go in search of skilled workers elsewhere, he added.