Karnataka   

Industrial corridor along highway

TORANAGAL (BELLARY DISTRICT): The Bharatiya Janata Party Government in the State has planned to develop an industrial corridor along the national highway connecting Bangalore and Mumbai and also between Hubli and Bellary.

Murugesh Neerani, Minister for Large and Medium Industries, told presspersons here on Saturday that the main idea behind creating an industrial corridor was to see that all districts along the highway were industrially developed. “Our Government has accorded priority to industrial development with stress on value-addition,” he added.

A Delhi-based company had been entrusted the job of conducting a study on the requirements of each district concerned including identifying of sites. It would prepare a report based on which the Government would start acquiring land. “We have had discussions with the company, and on July 18, it will be formally asked to

take up work on the study,” he said.

Mr. Neerani was here on a day’s visit to the JSW Vijayanagar Steel Ltd., which has established a multi-crore mega integrated steel plant and also to hold discussions with members of the Bellary District Chamber of Commerce and Industry to ascertain problems faced by industrialists.

He said the State had been divided into six industrial zones and the Government had already identified the nature of industries that could come up, based on locally available raw materials. Bellary, where iron ore was available in abundance, was suited for steel industries, while Gulbarga and its surrounding places, which were rich in limestone deposits, were ideal for cement factories. Hubli-Dharwad and Belgaum would be given an opportunity to start automobile industries and IT/BT units, while food processing units would be started in Bijapur, Bagalkot and Shimoga which were well known for their horticultural produce.

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