Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers Shri D. V.
Sadananda Gowda has said that to consolidate and synergize the capacities
of the domestic downstream plastic processing industry, Government has come up
with a scheme of Setting up of Plastic Parks with an state-of-the-art
infrastructure through cluster development approach.
In a written reply in Rajya
Sabha today the Union Minister informed that Under the scheme, Central
Government provides grant funding up to 50% of the project cost, subject to a
ceiling of Rs. 40 crore per project. The remaining project cost is to be funded
by the State Government, beneficiary industries and by loan from financial
institutions.
He
said, the Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals has approved setting up of
10 Plastic Parks in the country, out of which 6 parks have been given final
approval in the States of Assam, Madhya Pradesh (two parks),Odisha, Tamil Nadu
and Jharkhand. These 6 Plastic Parks are under various stages of
implementation. For the setting up of remaining 4 Plastic Parks, the Detailed
Project Reports (DPRs) for setting up of Plastic Parks in the States of
Uttarakhand and Chhattisgarh are under evaluation and proposal for setting up
of two new Plastic Parks are under process.
Ddetails
of the 6 Plastic Parks are as under:
1.
Madhya Pradesh: Plastic Park at Tamot has completed physical infrastructure and
purchase of equipment for common facility centers (CFC) is in progress. One
unit is functional in the Plastic Park.
2.
Madhya Pradesh: Plastic Park at Bilaua is at implementation stage and work of
development of physical infrastructure is in progress.
3.
Odisha: Plastic Park at Paradeep is at implementation stage and work of
development of physical infrastructure is almost completed.
4.
Jharkhand: Plastic Park at Deoghar is at implementation stage and work of
development of physical infrastructure is in progress.
5.
Tamil Nadu: The work at Plastic Park at Thiruvallur has started recently
and land filling on the site is in progress.
6.
Assam: Plastic Park at Tinsukia is at implementation stage and work of
development of physical infrastructure is in progress.
Shri Gowda also informed that The Central Institute of
Petrochemicals Engineering and Technology (CIPET) has established a Centre for
Skilling and Technical Support (CSTS) at Vijayawada in Andhra Pradesh
which provides Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma programmes and also skill
development training programmes in the field of Plastics Engineering & Technology.
He
said that the Centre is also providing technical/consultancy services to the
plastic industries in the field of plastics processing, testing,composites and
mould manufacturing, design etc.
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