Industrial Park

Assam cabinet approves mega industrial park, new policy for green energy

Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday said the state cabinet has approved a mega industrial park and a new policy for green energy. Addressing a press conference after chairing a cabinet meeting here, Sarma said the state government has resolved to allot 569 bighas of land (over 188 acres) in Morigaon district for a mega industrial park. The cabinet also approved the Assam Integrated Clean Energy Policy, 2025 to promote solar, wind, mini and small hydro, hydrogen and other green energy projects in the state, he added. "We have also decided to notify a new national park in between existing parks Raimona and Manas. It will be Sikhna Jwhwlao National Park, spread across 316.29 sq km in Chirang and Kokrajhar districts," Sarma said. Besides, the cabinet has approved Post Graduate increments to Ayurvedic doctors, who have successfully completed the 3-year PG course, he added.

Ecobox to invest Rs 400 cr on Chennai facility, buys 50-acre land

Ecobox Industrial Parks on Monday said it will be investing Rs 400 crore for a facility near Chennai. It has already acquired a 50-acre land parcel at Mannur, in Tamil Nadu, where a 12-lakh sq ft facility will come up, as per a company statement. The newly formed operating platform of Alta Capital's Logicap Advisors said it plans for a greenfield development on the land. "The project located three kms from SH 50, with a planned development area of 1.2 million square feet (mn sft) and an investment outlay of over Rs 400 crore, will serve the increasing demand for modern industrial and logistics facilities in India," the statement said. At present, Logicap has a total footprint of 13 million sq ft, making it the fifth largest logistics platform in the country, the statement said. The site is well connected to key industrial corridors and Chennai's manufacturing base, and the project is designed to support e-commerce, third-party logistics, and light manufacturing sectors. Alta was

Work on 12 industrial smart cities to kick off this year; 4 to be completed

In August, the Union Cabinet approved the creation of 12 industrial zones, strategically positioned across 10 states and planned along six major corridors

Ring-fencing a challenge: Industrial parks may help attract investment

The latest policy is certainly an upgraded attempt to push the envelope in attracting investment

Vedanta to establish two not-for-profit industrial parks: Anil Agarwal

Industrialist Anil Agarwal states that an industrial park can greatly increase the competitiveness of manufacturing while bringing down the cost of transporting raw material

12 industrial parks worth Rs 25,000 crore await Union Cabinet nod

To attract Rs 1.5 trn investment in boost to manufacturing

Budget 2024: Govt to set up 'plug and play' industrial parks in 100 cities

12 industrial parks to be 'sanctioned' under the National Industrial Corridor Development Programme, says Finance Minister

A $100 bn bet on China's economy sours as warehouses, industrial hubs empty

Logistics hubs that were built in anticipation of a long-lasting boom in e-commerce, manufacturing and food storage are losing tenants, forcing building owners to slash rents

Nine industrial parks developed post-2011: West Bengal industry minister

The minister said this while highlighting the focus given to industrial infrastructure development by way of existing and new industrial parks

GNIDA plans to allot 44 industrial plots, expects Rs 5,000 cr revenue

The Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority on Wednesday said it has launched a scheme for allotment of 44 industrial plots and expects Rs 5,000 crore in revenue. The land allotment for industries will also generate 10,000 employment opportunities, the Greater Noida Industrial Development Authority (GNIDA) said in a statement. These plots are located in six sectors and cover areas ranging from 135 square metres to 20,354 square metres, it said. "Greater Noida has emerged as a hub of industrial investment. Keeping in view the demand and need of entrepreneurs, the scheme has been launched. Possession of the plot will be given within the stipulated time. With this, thousands of youngsters will get employment opportunities along with investment in the region," GNIDA CEO NG Ravi Kumar said. With the allotment of these 44 plots, the GNIDA is expected to rake in around Rs 5,000 crore from the reserve price. The allotment is being done through interviews. With the allocation, an .

TVS Industrial and Logistical Parks, Goa-IPB to set up warehousing park

TVS Industrial and Logistical parks has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Goa Investment Promotion and Facilitation Board for the development of a logistics and warehousing park in Goa. The strategic commitment involves an investment of Rs 125 crore, marking TVS ILP fostering industrial growth in Goa, a company statement issued here on Tuesday said. The state-of-the-art facility, to come up at the Verna Industrial Estate in Goa, would be spread across 15-20 acres and generate direct employment of 250 and indirectly 1,000 in the region, the statement said. TVS ILP CEO Ramnath Subramaniam exchanged documents with Goa-Investment Promotion and Facilitation Board CEO Swetika Sachan at the Invest Goa 2024 Summit recently. "Our partnership with Goa-IPB is a significant milestone for TVS ILP. The central government has been making investments in Goa's infrastructure, making it an attractive business destination. This MoU will help put Goa on the map for many businesses that ..

J-K to get Rs 80,000 cr investments for industrial ecosystem: L-G Sinha

Lieutenant Governor Manoj Sinha on Monday said Jammu and Kashmir will get investments to the tune of Rs 80,000 crore in the near future as the administration is keen to establish an industrial ecosystem that will help the local youth achieve their dreams. "The kind of enthusiasm I see and the kind of proposals we are getting, I am sure that, in the coming days, we will get investments of Rs 75,000 crore to Rs 80,000 crore. It will provide employment to five lakh people," Sinha said after laying the foundation stone of a private hospital and medical college here. Sinha said over the past two years, the Union Territory on an average has got six proposals per day for setting up industrial units. "If I take average of two years, we have been receiving proposals for setting up six industrial units every day," he added. Sinha said the hopsital and medical college project, which is estimated to come up at a cost of Rs 559 crore, was second such project in the valley after Milli Trust ...

Individual developers can set up industrial parks; Kerala revises policy

The Kerala government has decided to allow individual developers to set up industrial parks in the state and will provide them with Rs 3 crore for creating infrastructure facilities like roads, electricity and water supply within such estates. To facilitate individual developers to set up the parks and give a boost to the industrial infrastructure in the state, the government has revised its Private Industrial Estate (PIE) scheme, the Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC) said in a statement. Earlier, only companies, cooperatives and consortia of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) units were eligible to take advantage of the PIE scheme of 2022, it said. "As per the revised scheme, individual developers having a minimum of 10 acres of land at their disposal can apply for developing industrial parks. So far, eight individual developers have been given permits to build private industrial parks in different parts of the state, and 20 applications are under ...

TN kicks off BizBuddy Outreach programme to address industry concerns

SIPCOT or the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu is an institution owned by the Government of Tamil Nadu to promote industrial growth in the state

33 teams to inspect Delhi industrial units to curb pollution: Gopal Rai

The Delhi government has constituted 33 teams to regularly inspect industrial units and bring pollution in the city under control, Environment Minister Gopal Rai said on Friday. He was speaking at a review meeting on industrial pollution with officers of Delhi Pollution Control Committee (DPCC), Delhi State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC), Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), environment department and Delhi Development Authority (DDA). "It has been decided to deploy 141 patrolling teams comprising 472 personnel during the day time and 108 patrolling teams comprising 397 personnel at night from three departments all over Delhi to monitor dumping of industrial waste. "As many as 1,721 registered industrial units in Delhi have switched to PNG," Rai said. The teams will oversee all industrial units in Delhi and implement immediate measures to curb pollution, he said. Periodic reports will be submitted to the environment department based on their findin

Origins by Mahindra signs Mitsubishi Electric for $222 mn Chennai project

The new unit will be Mitsubishi Electric's first air-conditioner and compressor manufacturing plant in India; is expected to begin operations by October 2025

Leasing of industrial, warehousing space up 6% across tier I-III cities

Industrial and warehousing space leasing rose 6 per cent to 46.3 million square feet last year across major cities of India, according to Savills India. In its latest report, property consultant Savills India said that the leasing of industrial and warehousing space rose 3 per cent in 2022 across eight major tier-I cities to 36.2 million square feet from 35.1 million square feet. The absorption of space in tier II-III cities increased to 10.1 million square feet in 2022 from 8.6 million square feet in the previous year. The Tier II and III cities include Coimbatore, Guwahati, Indore, Nagpur, Lucknow, Jaipur, Rajpura, Bhubaneswar, Kochi/Ernakulam, Patna, Hosur, Madurai, Varanasi, Hubli and Ludhiana. Among the major cities in India, Delhi-NCR saw the highest absorption in 2022 at 16 per cent, followed by Mumbai at 14 per cent. Pune and Bengaluru saw absorptions at 13 per cent and 12 per cent, respectively, while tier II and III cities accounted for 22 per cent. Third-party logistic

Agri lands won't be acquired for industrial parks: TN govt amid protest

Agriculture lands will not be acquired for Annur and Mettupalayam industrial park projects in Coimbatore district and instead barren lands will be acquired, Tamil Nadu government assured amidst protests by farmers and opposition parties in the state. Considering the demand of farmers, instead of agricultural lands, only 1,630 acres of barren lands owned by private companies will be acquired for setting up the industrial parks, the government said. Also, satisfactory compensation would be provided to farmers who come forward to willingly give their lands without any compulsion, a release from the industrial department said. Farmers from several villages in Annur and Mettupalayam taluks protested against the taking over of their cultivable lands for the industrial park projects. BJP state chief K Annamalai, who led his party in staging a project in Annur on December 8, claiming not even a handful of soil would be given to the project, reacted to the announcement thanking the ...

SIPCOT to set up 11 new industrial parks in TN, to create over 2 lakh jobs

The State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) is in the process of establishing 11 new industrial parks in the state across sectors that would generate more than two lakh jobs in the region, a Confederation of Indian Industry and KPMG report said on Sunday. The move comes in the backdrop of Tamil Nadu leading across states in information and communication technology enabled governance with several e-governance projects successfully implemented across the state. Tamil Nadu was one of the first states in the country to formulate policies in the IT-ITeS sector in 1997. The industry has opened an opportunity for the promotion of software exports and services in the state. In the automobile industry, the state has attracted major projects from various companies including heavy commercial vehicle maker Ashok Leyland, automobile manufacturers Hyundai Motor India, BMW, Renault Nissan, among others. These major projects triggered a multiplier effect by attracting numerou

Telangana to develop dedicated industrial park for Taiwanese companies

A team from Taiwan Electrical and Electronic Manufacturers' Association (TEEMA) and Taipei Economic and Cultural Center (TECC) on Friday met Telangana Minister for IT and Industries K T Rama Rao and discussed a wide range of topics ranging from trade and economic cooperation to cultural exchange programmes. An official release said the minister spoke about Telangana's unique investment policy, TS-iPASS and also highlighted about creating a dedicated industrial park in the State for Taiwanese companies and jointly work with industry and trade organisations of Taiwan to take it forward. The Telangana government has enacted the "Telangana State Industrial Project Approval and Self-Certification System (TS-iPASS) Act, 2014" for speedy processing of applications for issue of various clearances required for setting up of industries at a single point based on the self-certificate provided by the entrepreneur and also to create investor friendly environment in the State of Telangana. The .