The Delhi Government has launched a long-pending project under which infrastructure in various industrial clusters of the city will be improved to provide a better environment for growth of clean and non-polluting industries. In the first phase of the project, infrastructure of Patparganj and Okhla (Phase III) industrial areas will be upgraded for a total of Rs16 crore.
The project is being implemented by the Delhi Government's premier infrastructure development agency Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (DSIIDC). “We want to encourage non-polluting industries and services sector in the city and that is why we have decided to improve infrastructure in the industrial clusters,” Industries Minister Haroon Yusuf said while launching the project.
Initially, Rs9.4 crore will be spent in improving infrastructure at the Patparganj industrial area, while Rs6.54 crore will be invested in Okhla industrial area (Phase III). Referring to new industrial policy of the Delhi Government, he said it seeks to make the national Capital a global hub for clean, high-technology industries as well as for services sector. “A key strategy to achieve this would be through infrastructure development of industrial estates,” the Minister said.
The Minister lauded the efforts of DSIIDC in giving a thrust to the Capital's industries and promised all possible help to industrial associations. DSIIDC's Managing Director Amit Yadav said that the agency has devised a comprehensive plan to revamp the industrial areas in Delhi.
The Patparganj industrial area was planned and commissioned in 1992. It has 609 industrial units engaged in manufacturing surgical goods, metal processing, dyeing, electro plating, rolling and other high manufacturing sectors.