NINE APPAREL PARKS TO COME UP
The Government has
decided to establish nine Apparel Parks at Tronica City and Kanpur
(UP), Surat (Gujarat), Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala), Visakhapatnam
(Andhra Pradesh), Ludhiana (Punjab), Bangalore (Karnataka), and
Tirupur and Kanchipuram (Tamil Nadu). Foundation Stone for the
first Apparel Park is being laid today at Surat by the Chief Minister
of Guajarat, Shri Narendra Modi, today. The work on the second
one at Tirupur will start next month.
The Apparel Park
at Surat will be constructed in an area of 57 hectares with a
total project cost of Rs. 42.55 crore. It will have 111 large
and small units and is expected to generate employment for about
65,000 persons.
The "Apparel
Park for Export" scheme, envisaged by the Ministry of Textiles,
aims at giving focussed thrust for the setting up of apparel manufacturing
units of international standards at potential textile growth centres.
The Apparel Parks will fulfil all international specifications
on labour and environment. It will provide major buyers overseas
a single – stop market in India.
The Central assistance
for Apparel Parks would be to the extent of 75 per cent of the
capital expenditure on infrastructural facilities subject to a
maximum of Rs 10 crore and the rest by the State Government /agency
. The Centre will also provide a sum up to Rs. Five crore for
setting up an effluent treatment plant and multi-purpose hall
for display and marketing of products. The Centre will also provide
a grant up to 50 per cent of the cost of the training facility
created in the Park up to a maximum of Rs. Two crore.
