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no power cuts, and continuous process industries are
relocating to the State.
The highly productive labour force and peaceful law
and order are catalysing this process. The State
Investment Promotion Board is bound by law to issue
time bound approvals, with legislation to this effect in
place.
The Chhattisgarh State Industrial Develoment
Corporation (CSIDC) has developed industrial growth
New, Large
Industrial Areas
To meet increasing requirement of land for new
industrial units, Government has decided to setup
three Large Industrial Areas in Districts Bilaspur,
Raigarh & Raipur on 4740 hectares of land.
Details of Star Industrial Areas -
District
Land (Hectares)
Bilaspur 791
Raipur 2483
Raigarh 1466
State Govt. has approved Project cost (excluding
cost of land) of Large Industrial Area Bilaspur at
Rs.59.13 Cr. Land acquisition is in progress.
Anticipated project cost of Large Industrial Area
Raipur & Raigarh would be Rs. 177 Cr. and Rs.
91.50 Cr. Respectively.
Steel Plants, Ferro Alloys Units, Power
Plants/Captive Power Plants and other core
industries are to be setup in these Proposed Large
Industrial Areas.
Engineering Park
Most of the industries in Durg disrict are metallurgical
industries and due to influence of Bhilai Steel Plant
the entire area has become a metallurgical hub in
last 50 years.
To promote engineering industries an Engineering
Park is proposed to be setup in Industrial Area Bhilai
on 120 ha of land. Engineering Park will have about
150 units based on engineering products, machine
tools, auto components, casting & forging etc.
centres - Urla and Siltara (Raipur), Borai (Durg), Sirgitti
(Bilaspur ) & Anjani (Pendra Road) and proposes to
setup four large Industrial Area in Raipur, Bilaspur,
Raigarh and Durg/Rajnandgaon.
Thrust sectors in Chhattisgarh's New Industrial Policy
include large, core-sector industries, which would
typically develop their own satellite townships. The State
encourages private sector investment in new industrial
areas. A successful private industrial park has already
come up in Raigarh.
Private sector corporate entities and estates are also
allowed to install Captive Power Plants to generate and
distribute power directly within the estate, without any
restrictions
The Industrial Growth Centre in Urla, near Raipur city is
spread over 334 hectares. It has 45 kilometres of
asphalted roads, a water supply system and dedicated
power substations. It has around 414 LMI & small-scale
industries. Over Rs. 425 crore has been invested in
Urla, which provides employment to 11,259 people. It
has all civic amenities.
The Siltara Growth Centre is 13 km from Raipur on
National Highway 200. It has an area of 1291
hectares. Future projects include sponge iron units,
ferro alloy units, and cooking gas bottling plant. The
infrastructure here includes 40 km of internal roads,
besides other amenities. It has 48 industrial units with
an investment of Rs. 716 crore providing employment
to 2,772 persons.
The Borai Industrial Area in Durg district is the first
example of its type of Private-Public Partnership in
industrial water supply in India, constructed on a buildoperate
transfer basis. The growth centre sprawls over
437 hectares. It has 45 industrial units with an
investment of Rs. 137 Cr. providing employment to
1505 persons.
Industrial Growth Centre in Sirgitti is spread over 338
hectares. It has around 202 LMI & small scale units. An
investment of Rs. 351 crore provides employment to
3,035 people.
Bilaspur, being a Railway zone and the headquarters of
South Eastern Coalfields Ltd., has many ancillary units
in the area.
Apart from CSIDC's industrial areas, a private industrial
estate has been developed by a private corporate in
Raigarh District.
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