04-05-2021, 04:43 PM
Odisha trying for a machine tools park at NIMZ. Following is an excerpt from https://tathya.in/?p=6384 .
Quote:Machine Tool Project Awaits Approval
By Tathya Correspondent - April 4, 2021
... Notably, State Government on request of the Union Government to set up a dedicated Machine Tool Park in the NIZM Kalinganagar, had presented a proposal for a machine tool park spread across 100 acre to the Union Government’s Department of Heavy Industries (DoHI) along with another proposal for a Center of Excellence on 10 acres.
... Both the projects will cost Rs.281 crore– Machine Tool Park Rs.156 Crore and Center of Excellance Rs.125 crore.
The Machine Tool Park is expected to have more than 58 units of machine tool industries, producers of accessories, attachments and service providers to the industry.
The main focus of the park will be on machine tools, tooling, dies and moulds; the heavy electrical equipment sector; the mining and construction equipment segment; the process plant equipment sector; and metallurgical machinery, including steel plant equipment. Other focus sectors would be plastics processing machinery and textile & jute machinery.
Around 80 per cent of this cost will come in as grant from the Centre and the rest to be borne by the State Government.
... It has perennial 215 MLD water source, 13,687 acre of industry-ready unencumbered land parcels, quality power connection through dedicated industrial feeders, perennial water supply from adjacent Brahmani river, robust infrastructure framework for solid waste and sewerage, logistics hub with common warehousing unit, upcoming mega industrial township to accommodate 25,000- 50,000 workers with social infrastructure, said sources, adding Machine Tool Park with Centre of Excellence will go a long way in boosting the industrial scenario.