Monday March 27 2006
HYDERABAD: After a three - year agonising wait, the ball has been set rolling for setting up the Centrally-sponsored pharma cluster here with the floating of a special purpose vehicle, besides forming the Hyderabad Pharma Infrastructure and Technologies Limited a few days ago.
The main objective of the Rs 66.16 crore pharma cluster is to bring down the pollution levels in Jeedimetla, Patancheru and Qutbullapur, which are inhabited by thousands of people.
The pharma cluster is among the two projects cleared by the Union Industries Ministry under the Indian Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme. Of the total project cost, 75 per cent will be funded by the Centre and 15 per cent by stake-holders.
The remaining 10 per cent will be borne by the State government. The other one is the auto cluster which is coming up near Vijayawada at a cost of Rs 40 crore.
According to officials of the Industries Department, the first instalment of funds is likely to be released by the Centre within a fortnight. The State government released Rs 2 lakh initially as its equity to ground the project.
“All the 70 chemical units under the Jeedimetla Effluents Treatment Plant Limited (JETL) and those in Patancheru and Qutbullapur will be members of the cluster whose primary objective is to treat effluents released by these units properly,” sources told this website’s newspaper.
According to JETL officials, all works to be taken up in the cluster will be completed within 18 months. The facilities in the cluster include a common lab and human resource development centre.
The drainage system in Qutubullapur industrial area will be improved. Setting up of an incinerator and water recovery system are part of the project. The cluster will help the industries considerably, besides providing the much - needed relief to the locals affected by the pollutants released by the units, they said.
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