Footwear R&D Center in Bahadurgarh

Footwear R&D Center in Bahadurgarh

BAHADURGARH: (Jan 25, 13) To solve the skilled labour crisis in footwear industry, Bahadurgarh-based footwear unit owners plan to establish a research and development (R&D) centre at the Footwear Park in Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate, spread across 2 acres of land. The centre would become operational by March 2014 and would cost around Rs 15 crore -with Rs 10.5 crore coming from ministry of MSME and government of Haryana as subsidy.

Jitender Singh, AGM, HSIIDC, Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate said, "The HSIIDC has approved 2 acres of land for developing R&D Centre to aid the footwear industries based in Bahadurgarh and outside the city."

MONEY MATTERS

Raj Kumar Gupta, president, Footwear Park at Bahadurgarh and managing director of Action Shoes said, "The entire footwear industry in India is facing a skilled labour crunch. To fill this gap, we needed an R&D centre."

Elaborating further on the cost, he added, "We are getting a government subsidy of Rs 10.5 crore. While the cost of buying and installing machines - Rs 9 crore - would be borne by ministry of MSME, the construction cost (Rs 1.5 crore) would be borne by the government of Haryana. Industry players, who are members of our organisation, would pay the rest of the amount that is, Rs 4.5 crore."

WHAT'S ON OFFER

The centre would train around 10,000 workers every year and the courses offered in this centre would span from one week to one year, depending upon the need of the industry and requirement of the training for the applicants, informed Subhash Jagga, general secretary, Footwear Park, Bahadurgarh.

Asked about the course fee, Jagga, who is also a member of the Bahadurgah Chamber of Commerce and Industry ( BCCI) said, "The course fee would vary from Rs 500 to Rs 10,000 depending upon the time frame of the course."

Jagga is optimistic about the centre. "Bahadurgarh is home to around 500 footwear units, which create direct job opportunities for around 50,000 people. Apart from this, there are about 1 lakh indirect jobs. So, the students of the R&D Centre would easily get a placement in the units."

REASON FOR R&D CENTRE

The proposed R&D centre will not be the only institute dedicated to footwear. Twenty five kms away in IMT Rohtak is the Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI).

"The footwear park in Bahadurgarh will enjoy the benefits of various services offered by FDDI, including industrial consultancy in the field of design, productivity improvement, quality control, man and machine utilisation, inventory control etc.," said Rajeev J Lakhara, managing director, FDDI.

The 1992 batch Indian Revenue Service further added that the footwear industry based in and around Rohtak would reap the benefits of the research and development carried out at FDDI. The training of active industry professionals is one of the most pivotal services of the institute.

But Gupta opined that FDDI would have aided more had it been nearer to Bahadurgarh. To this, Jagga added: "The centre will train recruits which will help units inside and outside the Bahadurgarh Industrial Area."

WHAT NEXT

The units now await a 132 KVA power sub-station. "When it becomes operational, there will be ample power supply for the 375 units in Bahadurgarh Footwear Park," said Subhash Jagga. The units include, footwear giants such as, Action Shoes, Lakhani, RelaxoBSE -0.18 %, Lancer Shoes, Welcome, Diamond, etc.

Once operational, the park would become 100 percent production efficient. "On an average, one unit does business worth Rs 4 crore to Rs 5 crore per annum. The figure can head further north, once the power sub-station becomes 100 percent operational," said Jagga.

Jitender Singh of HSIIDC informed that the substation would become operational by the end of March this year. 

OPDs at AIIMS Jhajjar to begin from Monday

OPDs at AIIMS Jhajjar to begin from Monday

New Delhi : The out-patient departments at the second campus of AIIMS at Badhsa village in Jhajjar, Haryana, will be functional from Monday Nov 26, 2012.

Inaugurating the new campus on Saturday, Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said the outreach campus will also house the country’s national cancer institute, built at a cost of Rs 2,100 crore.

Azad said the new campus was completed four months after the foundation stone was laid in May.

“In 2011 alone, our main AIIMS campus saw 26 lakh OPD patients. This is a huge load and the infrastructure at AIIMS is bursting at its seams. As a result, patients have to wait for long periods for various procedures and services. We expect to treat around 25,000 OPD patients at the Jhajjar campus every month,” he said.

AIIMS director Dr R C Deka said the new campus initially will have OPDs in paediatrics, gynaecology, medicine, surgery, orthopaedics and ophthalmology. “In the long term, it will be expanded to a full-fledged super-specialty teaching and research institute,” he said.

AIIMS will outsource the laboratory tests at the Jhajjar campus to HLL Lifecare Limited, a public-sector unit of the Health Ministry.

In another first, the outreach campus pharmacy will provide free generic medicines in 194 drug categories to all patients for a month. The pharmacy has also been outsourced to the same company.

The 300-acre campus was donated free of cost by the Haryana government. It will also house a proposed national cardiac care centre. “We have asked for expression of interests (EOIs) from international consultants to draft the master plan for the campus. The cancer institute will have 600 beds. Once various departments are completed, the entire hospital will have 2,000 beds,” Azad said.

The centre will be manned by doctors from AIIMS from 9 am to 1 pm on weekdays. “We will refer patients who need advanced care to government hospitals in Gurgaon and Bahadurgarh. If further specialisation is needed, we will refer them to the AIIMS main campus,” Dr Shakti Gupta, medical superintendent of the outreach OPD, said.

Haryana government officials said the the top priority will be to improve connectivity to the campus, which is 17 km from Gurgaon.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said, “The Gurgaon-Badli Road will be made four-lane. The new campus will benefit patients from Haryana and states like Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh.” 

BHEL commissions another 500 MW unit at Jhajjar power plant

BHEL commissions another 500 MW unit at Jhajjar power plant

November 09, 2012,

Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd today said it has executed the commissioning of another 500 MW unit at Indira Gandhi Super Thermal Power Project in Jhajjar, Haryana, which is jointly run by NTPC and two other entities.

The plant is owned by Aravali Power Company Pvt Ltd -- a joint venture of NTPC, Haryana Power Generation Corp and Indraprastha Power Generation Corp. The plant is located in Jhajjar, Haryana.

In a statement, BHEL said it had earlier commissioned two 500 MW units at the project, which has a total capacity of 1,500 MW.

The Boiler and Turbine Generators were manufactured at BHEL's Trichy and Haridwar plants, respectively.

Green signal for two new rapid rail transit links Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Rohtak-Hisar,

Green signal for two new rapid rail transit links Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Rohtak-Hisar,

Fri Nov 30 2012, 03:00 hrs

New Delhi : NCR Kamal Nath announces Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Rohtak-Hisar,

Urban Development Minister Kamal Nath on Thursday announced that two new regional rapid transit system (RRTS) corridors — Delhi-Bahadurgarh-Rohtak-Hisar and Delhi-Shahdara-Baraut — will be built to improve connectivity between Delhi and states such as Haryana and UP.

“We have approved two rail corridors, Delhi-Rohtak up to Hisar and Delhi-Shahdara-Baraut,” Kamal Nath said after a meeting on the RRTS for the NCR. These corridors will be taken up in addition to the proposed Delhi-Gurgaon-Alwar, Delhi-Sonepat-Panipat and Delhi-Ghaziabad-Meerut links.

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said: “While the north, south and east sides of Delhi have been taken up in the first phase of RRTS, the west side, which extends up to Hisar-Rohtak, had been left out. We urged the Urban Development Minister to consider taking up another corridor, extending it till Hisar as it is a counter-magnet town and will serve the purpose of NCR planning.’’

Stressing on the need to develop such corridors, Kamal Nath said: “The population of Delhi is increasing and there was consensus that means of transport have to be developed from the small towns to Delhi. This meeting on RRTS was called to fast-track these projects.’’

According to Urban Development Ministry officials, such corridors will help create economic opportunities and provide a fast mode of travel for people coming from UP, Haryana to work in Delhi and vice-versa.

While the feasibility study for three corridors — Delhi-Panipat (111 km), Delhi-Alwar corridor (180 km) and Delhi-Meerut (90 km) — has been completed, a detailed project report will now be prepared for them. The budget for the three corridors will be around Rs 72,000 crore, officials said.

“Reports are being prepared and we believe that work on these three corridors is likely to start in another two years,’’ Kamal Nath said. These high-speed trains will run at a speed of 160 km per hour.

Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate expansion to create business opportunities worth Rs 3,000 crore

Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate expansion to create business opportunities worth Rs 3,000 crore

Nov 22, 2012,

BAHADURGARH: Bahadurgarh Inc is expecting a boom in the industrial sector on account of the development of new sectors in the industrial estate by the Haryana State Industries and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC).

With 121 operational units and another 387 units to become operational by mid 2013, HSIIDC is expected to create business opportunities worth Rs 3,000 crore annually and jobs for nearly 75,000 people in the local economy. The industrial estate is spread in 555 acres of land, which is expected to give home to around 600 units.

There are 121 units, which are operating in the Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate developed by the HSIIDC and 235 more units would become operational in Sector 17 by January 2013, while 152 units would become operational by July 2013," said Gulshan Kumar, DGM, HSIIDC, Industrial Estate, Bahadurgarh. He said that Sector 17 is completely devoted to the footwear park, while sector 16 will have general industries.

REVENUE GENERATION

Talking about the investment, the HSIIDC official said, "The total cost of land and infrastructure development is estimated at Rs 100 crore. Apart from this, an investment of Rs 1,008 crore is expected from the industrialists for setting up their plants and required machinery in the region."

Subhash Jagga, general secretary of the Bahadurgarh Footwear Park and member of the Bahadurgarh Chamber of Commerce and Industry said, "On an average, one unit in the region would generate around Rs 5 crore per annum business. Hence, the estate is expected to add nearly Rs 3,000 crore in the industrial revenue generation of the city." However, Jagga reminded that the figures would be a reality only when the 132 KVA power sub-station becomes operational in the Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate.

LAND MANAGEMENT

The entire estate is spread in around 555 acres of land, where size of plots range from 450 square metres to 4 acres in Sector 16. In Sector 17, plots range from 450 sq m to 2.5 acres,"said Jitender Singh, AGM, HSIIDC, Bahadurgarh.

According to Singh, the major allottees in the industrial estate are Relaxo Footwear, Welcome Footwear, Diamond Footwear, Sumanglam Impex, Rinder India, Shri Bankey Bihari Embroidery, Ambika Forging, Hemstich India, Prudent Metal etc. The HSIIDC officer further added, "The industrial estate would generate around 28,000 direct job opportunities in the region."

When you count job creations, you need to count the indirect job creations as well, pointed out Subhash Jagga of Bahadurgarh Chamber of Commerce and Industry. "The units here in Bahadurgarh create around 1.5 to two times of their direct jobs. Therefore, net job opportunities being created by the Bahadurgarh Industrial Estate would be around 70,000 to 75,000," said Jagga.

 FURTHER EXPANSION

In view of the overwhelming response from the entrepreneurs, the HSIIDC has further acquired about 177 acres of land for the Industrial Estate in Sector 4B, Bahadurgarh. Total 46 plots have been carved out in this new sector, whereas 25 acres of land has been allotted to Yokohama India Private Limited," said Jitender Singh of HSIIDC. Singh further added, "Yokohama is a prestigious project for us as it involves investment of around Rs 965 crore and job opportunities for nearly 900 people."

Other big units in Sector 4B are Neolite, ZKW Lightings, Adlec Systems etc. Total project cost at Sector 4B for providing infrastructural facilities including a water treatment plant (WTP) and disposal of storm water drainage is Rs 85 crore," said Jitender Singh. He said that around 65 percent of the developmental work would be completed by March 2013

It’s a long, long wait for KMP Expressway

Aditya DevOct 16, 2012, 08.03AM IST

GURGAON: Even as the Haryana and Delhi governments have set May 2013 the fresh deadline for completing the 135-km Kundli-Manesar-Palwal (KMP) Expressway, the project has made an overall progress of just about 70% so far.

The private concessionaire developing the expressway, KMP Expressways Ltd, on the other hand claims that the 53-km priority stretch between Manesar and Palwal is scheduled to be completed by November 2012 and will open to public by December. Over 85% work on the stretch has been completed, with all the 83 major structures ready and already connected to the main carriageway.

The major structures on the stretch include 14 small and big bridges, 8 cattle crossings, 12 agriculture vehicle underpasses, 23 pedestrian crossings, 21 underpasses and 5 box culverts.

At present, the final layer of dense bituminous macadam, the commonly used bituminous paving mixes in India, is being laid and has been done for up to 48 km of the total stretch of 53 km. The rest would be completed soon, said a spokesperson.

Completion of KMP Expressway will help de-congest traffic in the city as vehicles coming from Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh and going to Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra will use it to avoid Delhi and Gurgaon.

The concessionaire made the commitment at a meeting held on June 8 2012 in Delhi between the chief ministers of Haryana and Delhi, to open the Manesar-Palwal section for tolling within the next 90 to 120 days and complete the expressway by May 31 2013.

Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda had told TOI, "Decidedly, the progress on the project is slow and the concessionaire has been asked by various authorities including the high powered committee (expressway) Haryana, monitoring committee constituted by the Supreme Court, chairman/ EPCA for NCR, besides HSIIDC and an independent consultant, to speed up the work. The HSIIDC has already imposed damages on the concessionaire for delay in meeting the commercial operation date to the extent of 0.1 per cent of the total project cost per week or part hereof since July 30 2009 till the commercial operation date is met."

According to the chief minister's office, as per the latest progress report received from the concessionaire, the physical progress achieved up to July 31 2012 is 67.76 per cent (Rs 1,003.54 crore) with monthly physical progress of 0.03 per cent (Rs 0.39 crore). The concessionaire has intimated that the gross financial progress achieved up to July 31 2012 is 76.56 per cent (Rs 1262.04 crore) with monthly financial progress of 0.02 per cent (Rs 0.30 crore).

The concessionaire, on the other hand, blames a litigation case and difficulty in getting clearances from various agencies for project delay. "Right at the beginning of the project there was a delay of 18 months due to litigation by one of the consortium partners. The project got further delayed due to much time taken in getting clearances and approvals from specific authorities. These included delays in getting clearances for crossing Indian Oil Corporation Ltd. pipelines, relocation of high tension overhead transmission lines and land acquisition issues," said the spokesperson.

There were delays in getting the final design change approvals for the railway over bridges, grade separators and design changes done in the original design to address the concerns of the local villagers.

Najafgarh to get 3 flyovers

With an aim to initiate development projects in Najafgarh sub-city in Outer Delhi, Public Work Department (PWD) has decided to construct three flyovers at vital link roads at Najafgarh chowk. These flyovers will connect the areas with Gurgaon, Jhajjar and Bahadurgarh and also provide hassle-free traffic movement at this stretch.

Talking to The Pioneer, PWD Minister Raj Kumar Chauhan said that PWD had decided to construct three flyovers at Najafgarh chowk connecting Sai Dham Temple to Dhansa road, Dichaon Kalan depot to Dhansa road on Nangloi road and Haibatpura extension to Dhansa road to provide commuters hassle-free journey on this stretch. “The PWD has been directed to appoint consultant to conduct detailed drawings and traffic feasibility report for this purpose. This is the only stretch, which connects Gurgaon, Jhajjar and Bahadurgarh to Najafgarh chowk in Delhi. It is now important to decongest Najafgarh chowk in view of another proposal which is being ready between Jhajjar and Dwarka,” said Chauhan.

According to Chauhan, the proposed flyover between Sai Dham Temple and Dhansa road and Dichaon Kalan depot to Dhansa road via Nangloi will be two kilometre long while flyover from Haibatpura extension to Dhansa road will be about 0.700 kms long. The Najafgarh sub-city chowk in west Delhi is heavily crowded from four directions. The chowk is surrounding by thousands of villages in west Delhi, hence large number of pedestrians also use this chowk for reaching nearest bus stands — Delhi Gate, Chhawla, Dhansa, Nangloi, Sai Dham Temple and Bahadurgarh bus stand. Beside this, there are four schools located near Najafgarh chowk also use these roads as footpath. PWD officials say the traffic volume during the peak hours are very high at this stretch and traffic jam is a routine affairs at Najafgarh chowk.