Foundation Stone laid for Footwear

Design Institute at IMT Rohtak

       Setting up yet another milestone on the path to develop Industrial Model Township (IMT) at Rohtak, Sh. Kamal Nath, Hon’ble Union Minister for Commerce & Industry laid the foundation stone for the Footwear Design & Development Institute at an impressive ceremony at IMT Rohtak. Sh. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon’ble Chief Minister Haryana and Sh. Deepender Hooda, MP were also present on this occasion alongwith senior officers of Haryana Government, district administration and HSIIDC.

The Corporation had received a request from the Department of Industrial Promotion & Policy, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, for allocation of land measuring 15 acres free of cost for establishment of a Footwear Design & Development Institute in Haryana.  The institute is likely to cater to the Human Resource Development of footwear and leather products industry besides providing technical and value added support services for over all grooming and global competence of the leather industry.

The Haryana Investment Promotion Board (HIPB), under the chairmanship of Hon’ble Chief Minister had considered the proposal and accorded allotment of the 15 acres land in IMT Rohtak on leasehold basis for five years initially on payment of nominal rent of Rs.100 per acre per annum, to be renewed for another 25 years on the same conditions provided that the Ministry of Commerce implements the project, with a provision for increase in lease of land for another 30 years based on certain compliances.

The Footwear Design & Development Institute is expected to meet the long felt need for trained manpower of the footwear industry particularly those in the footwear park developed by HSIIDC at Bahaduragarh. Land has already been allotted to big footwear manufacturing units like Action shoes, Diamond shoes, Relaxo Group, Lakhani etc. which are at an advanced stage of implementation.

The institute will be equipped with most modern and high end state-of-the-art infrastructure facilities to ensure world class training environment. It would have an intake of around 1000 students in various fields relating to footwear & leather products manufacturing technology, design, retailing & management. The main programs likely to be offered by the institute would include PG Diploma in Footwear Technology, Retail Management, Creative Design & CAD/CAM, etc; Diploma in Fashion Merchandizing, Footwear Manufacturing Technology etc.

The estimated project cost for establishment of the institute would be around Rs.110 crore. The infrastructure to be created would include classrooms, workshops, laboratories, hostel & staff quarters, sports & recreation facilities, auditorium etc. The academic programs are expected to commence from August / September 2009.

Industrial Model Township Rohtak is one of Corporation’s foremost projects. Being developed over an area of 5000 acres, the Corporation has already acquired around 870 acres for development under Phase I. The infrastructure development within the IMT is being undertaken by L&T, which is likely to be completed shortly. Apart from FDDI, 160 acres of land has been allotted to Asian Paints, who are establishing the largest paints manufacturing plant in Asia and a number of ancillary units like Hitech industries etc. Additional 1900 acres of land is in an advanced stage of acquisition.

Flatted Factories & Industrial Labour Housing

      Buoyed by the response for the allotment of Flatted Factories at Faridabad and Industrial Labour Housing scheme at IMT Manesar, Board of Directors of HSIIDC cleared the proposals for setting up of Flatted Factories at IMT Rohtak, Kundli, Rai, Barhi, Udyog Vihar, Gurgaon (Ph-VI), Bahadurgarh and for Industrial Labour Housing at IMT Rohtak, Kundli, Rai, Barhi and Bahadurgarh. Land has been earmarked at these locations for both the schemes.

In view of the demand of small scale units and to provide cost effective work place to them, the Corporation started the concept of Flatted Factories at sector 59 in Faridabad for factories involving stream specific lightweight machinery. The use of ground floor, first floor and second floor was restricted for categorised industry. The industries at ground floor would be light engineering units like turning machine, milling, electrical discharge machine, wire cut, IT transformers and coil manufacturing and CNC except power presses forging (hot & cold), die casting chemicals, electroplating welding, shearing, alloys, casting power extensive units involving 50 KW and above, textile dying and printing and packaging. The industries at first and second floor would be electrical and electronics except printed circuit board manufacturing, painting and powder coating, software industry, readymade garments, gem and jewelry units, testing centres and calibration units.

In order to facilitate walk to work culture and also providing affordable housing accommodation to the industrial labour in the industrial estates, the Corporation started the scheme of industrial labour housing (single room dwelling units and dormitories) at IMT Manesar on pilot basis. Applications had been invited from the entrepreneurs of the fully operational industrial projects of IMT Manesar and the response was overwhelming as 66 Nos. of applications have been received against 36 dormitories and 221 applications have been received aginst 192 dwelling units. Therefore, the Corporation decided to extend this scheme for other industrial estates developed by the Corporation.

The Board of Directors of the Corporation also cleared loan proposals for Rs.23.17 crore. Inspite of the global economic slowdown, the total sanctions during the year (1.4.2008 to 31.12.2008) have reached Rs.78 crore as against Rs.91 crore during the last financial year 2007-08. A one time settlement scheme for chronic non performing assets was also approved in the meeting.

Foundation stone laid for Plastic Engineering

&Technology institute at Sonipat

Hon’ble Chief Minister, Haryana Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda and Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel, Mr Ram Vilas Paswan lighting the lamp after laying the foundation stone of Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology at Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University,Murthal,Sonipat.

        To pave the way for developing the plastic industry in the region, Sh. Ram Vilas Paswan, Union Minister of Chemicals & Fertilizers and Steel laid the foundation stone of Central Institute of Plastic Engineering & Technology at Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University, Murthal in district Sonipat. Sh. Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Hon’ble Chief Minister Haryana alongwith the senior officers of Haryana Government and officers of district administration were also present on this occasion.

The institute has started degree courses as well as all the eight courses of CIEPT in this centre. Union Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers had taken a decision to start three new centres of CIPET at Jaipur in Rajasthan at Aurangabad in Maharashtra and at Murthal, Sonipat in Haryana.

The coming era would be an era of Plastic and this institution would provide large scale job opportunities to the people of this entire region. The seats for long duration courses had been increased from 300 to 500 and of short duration from 200 to 300 of this institution. This institute would establish new milestones of achievement for Deen Bandhu Chhotu Ram University and a sum of Rs 20.5 crore would be spent for setting up this institute, half of which would be borne by the State Government. This centre would provide human resource for the plastic industries. Further this would also give impetus to quality and research activities. Apart from this, it would also cater to the demand of Petro Chemical Hub to be set up at Panipat.

    The aim of the State Government was to provide quality education to the youth of the State. Steps have been taken to promote technical education as well as to develop such a system of technical education in the State which would create similar job opportunities for both the rural and urban youth besides providing man power according to the need of    the industries.

Haryana schemes in World Bank Report

The department of Industrial Policy and Promotion Government of India has short listed two activities of Government of Haryana for inclusion in the best practices compilation report. The said practices have been identified under National Studies on best practices of State Government being undertaken by the world bank. The activities short listed under studies are self-certification for approval of building plans and issuance of occupation certificate and comprehensive policy for rehabilitation and resettlement of land owners.

The studies undertaken by the world bank aims at making competitive evaluation of business environment in India and identify good practices which could be replicated elsewhere.

The industrial policy 2005 announced by the State Government had emphasized on adoption of self-certification in case of approval for building plan as well as occupation certificate. HSIIDC has successfully implemented the scheme within its industrial estates. Under the scheme, the architects are required to get themselves enlisted with HSIIDC and can issue a certificate to the allottee for construction of industrial buildings. The policy of self certification has helped the entrepreneurs in getting their building plans approved without the involvement of the Corporation thus enabling them to undertake timely implementation of their projects. A large number of industrial buildings have been constructed under the self certification policy.

The State Government formulated a path breaking policy for rehabilitation and resettlement of land owners whose land is acquired by the State Government. Under the policy the developers are liable to pay Rs.30,000/- per acre per annum with annual increase of Rs.1,000/- per acre for a period of 33 years for the land acquired for setting up of SEZ, Technology City and Park. In case of acquisition by the State Government, the payment shall be Rs.15,000/-   per acre per annum with an annual increase of Rs.500/- per acre.  After the issuance of R&R policy in December 2007, instructions has been issued to all the departments to pay royalty to the farmers as per R&R policy. In order to ensure that the payment is smoothly released to the landowners, it has been proposed that an annuity policy may be purchased from any Insurance Company or a Bank so that they can directly pay the annuity to the farmers for a period of 33 years. Meanwhile, in order to ensure that the farmers get the royalty as per the announcement, HSIIDC has requested the Land Acquisition Collectors of all the districts where the land has been acquired by HSIIDC after 5th March 2005 to release the money to the Landowners upto 31st March 2007. The process of disbursement of money to the landowners is in process.

The world bank’s report on ‘Doing Business – India Report 2009’ is likely to be published very soon.

Term loan for Pearl Global Ltd.

       The Corporation has sanctioned a term loan to the tune of Rs.1434.56 lakh to M/s Pearl Global Ltd. for construction of buildings in HSIIDC’s Udyog Vihar Gurgaon for leasing to the Corporate houses engaged in the IT and IT Enabled services. Gurgaon city is in the proximity of the national capital and being hub of IT / software development companies, there is huge demand for built up space from IT companies.  

      The proposed building is being constructed on a total land area of 8525 sq.mtrs. The company proposes to construct building with central air conditioning, 100 percent power backup and other allied facilities such as lifts, solar water heating system and sufficient parking facilities. The capital cost of the proposed project has been estimated at Rs.3214.17 lakh which is proposed to be funded by way of redeemable preference shares of Rs.459.07 lakh, interest free unsecured loans to the tune of Rs.862.17 lakh, internal accruals of Rs.459.07 lakh and a term loan of Rs.1434.56 lakh from the Corporation. The project is likely to be completed by the end of July-August 2010.

RECORD DIVIDEND BY THE CORPORATION

Sh.Rajeev Arora, MD HSIIDC (extreme left), Sh. M.L. Tayal, Principal Secretary to CM (centre) and Sh.Y.S. Malik, Financial Commissioner & Secretary Industries Deptt. (extreme right) presenting a cheque of Rs.7.5 crore to Hon’ble Chief Minister, Haryana Mr Bhupinder Singh Hooda as a dividend declared by the Corporation for 2007-08 fiscal which is an all time high in 41 years history of the Corporation.