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Pondicherry
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Launching a web site of the Industries and Commerce department and declaring open an information kiosk and technical library on the premises of the District Industries Centre in the estate, Mr. Chandirakasu said though the Chief Minister, N. Rangasamy, who was scheduled to inaugurate the web site (www.industrypondicherry.com) was absent, he would assure on behalf of him that problems of the entrepreneurs would be solved without delay. The secretary to the Industries Department, Chetan B. Sanghvi, said a campaign was on to woo prospective entrepreneurs from within and outside the country to start units at the Industrial Growth Centre, inaugurated recently at Karaikal. Sedarapaet near here had been identified as a site for the proposed Special Economic Zone, which might go on stream in the next two years. The Centre in principle had cleared the project. An `Industrial Master Plan' would be framed by the end of the current financial year. A comprehensive skill development programme for artisans, tradesmen and technicians would be implemented and the duration of training would be for a considerably longer period to ensure that they did not deviate from the jobs. Mr. Sanghvi also referred to collaborative efforts of the Department of Industries and Commerce to facilitate projects of the Confederation of Indian Industry or the Association of Industries of the Union Territory of Pondicherry for a big leap in exports from Pondicherry. It had been programmed to register exports worth Rs. 1,500 crores at the end of the tenth plan against Rs. 500 crores now netted every year in export sector from Pondicherry. The president of the Thattanchavady Industries Welfare Association (TIWA), R. Mananathan, recalled how a foreign industrialist during his visit to the industrial estate some years ago was displeased with the then `nauseating environment in the estate`. Although a facelift was now given as a result of the Association`s efforts, he sought the intervention of the authorities to relieve the estate of the mounds of garbage. He said that the Association felt that the Thattanchavady estate should be developed into a model estate for the country as a whole from the point of maintenance of the roads, infrastructure and other facilities for entrepreneurs. The Minister later declared open a lay out map of the location of units in the estate.
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