Green Industrial Park to come up at Jadcherla

BY V L Srinivasan

Published on Jan 31, 2006

Hyderabad: Showcasing the available green technologies for sustainable development, the State Government has decided to set up a ‘Green Industrial Park’ (GIP) at Jadcherla in Mahboobnagar district.

Spread over 1,000 acres adjacent to national highway on Hyderabad-Kurnool road and 38 km away from the upcoming Shamshabad international airport, the park is first of its kind in the country and would house eco-friendly industries, research centres, environmental appliance manufacturing units and food cluster units. The project is expected to generate over one lakh jobs in the long run.

Already, 28 groundwater sources exist and the Andhra Pradesh Industrial Infrastructure Corporation Limited (APIIC), which is the nodal agency to develop the park, plans to draw water from Jurala Priyadarshini Project in future.

‘‘The land has already been acquired and layout is being finalised. Some 200 units are likely to be set up with an investment of around Rs 1,000 crore,’’ APIIC Vice Chairman and Managing Director B P Acharya told ‘Express’.

The goal of GIP is to improve the economic performance of the companies planning to set up their units in the park without disturbing ecological balance.

The units that would come up in the GIP would have access to the services of Confederation of Indian Industry-Godrej Green Business Centre, tax holidays, single window and speedy clearances of all applications, uninterrupted power supply besides provisions of soft loans and management information systems.