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CHENNAI: Bowing to the demands of apparel exporters, the State Industries Promotion Corporation of Tamil Nadu (SIPCOT) has decided to provide common infrastructural facilities at the Irungattukottai Apparel Park to enable them to establish their units in the coming months. Talking to The Hindu on Tuesday, SIPCOT Chairman and Managing Director N. Govindan said: “Unnecessarily people were making issue of non-availability of common infrastructural facilities rather than setting up their units. We didn’t want them to lose money and time. Hence, we came forward to help them without any condition. “Having secured a grant of Rs.7 crore under ASIDE (Assistance to State for developing export Infrastructure and Allied Activities) programme, we are earmarking Rs.5 crore for constructing training centre, women’s hostel and dispensary and Rs.2 crore is set aside for effluent treat plant (ETP).” Out of the 35 allottees in the apparel park, only five have commenced their operations. Others accused SIPCOT officials of failure to provide training centre, ETP, women’s hostel, canteen and creche as promised in the initial stages that came in the way of establishing their units. When the situation reached a flashpoint, Mr. Govindan stepped in and agreed to help them. He and his officers later submitted a Detailed Project Report (DPR) to the Centre asking for grants to set up these facilities. Till date, the Centre and SIPCOT had invested totally Rs.20 crore and the bone of contention was the absence of common infrastructure. Three tenders floated“So far, we have floated three tenders for construction of dispensary, women’s hostel, creche and training centre. The last date for submitting the bids is November 21. We will finalise it within a week and issue work order during the first week of December. Initially, the hostel can accommodate 250 people and then this could be ramped up to 1,000. If everything goes well, these facilities should become a reality within 10 to 12 months time. We have already earmarked 6 acres for infrastructural facilities and these Centres would come up there,” he said. ETP design
Regarding the setting up of ETP, Mr. Govindan said it would take some more time since they were working on the model. The ETP would be designed after taking into consideration the effluents discharged by all the units. Special gesture“Recently we allotted the balance land to two exporters. Besides, three allottees have started construction work. As a special gesture, we are laying a 1.5-km road from Katrambakkam village to the Park at a cost of Rs.75 lakh. Most of the hurdles have been removed and the aggrieved parties posted about the developments. We hope that this place would also start bustling with activity soon,” he added.
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