Bahadurgarh Inc Grows on Liberalization Spark

Bahadurgarh Inc Grows on Liberalization Spark

BAHADURGARH: In the past two decades, especially after liberalisation, Bahadurgarh has witnessed signs of industrial growth. Today, there are around 2,500 units based here clocking a turnover of around Rs 6,500 crore employing 50,000 people. Jitender Singh, AGM of HSIIDC, Bahadurgarh said, "The city's economy has grown at 20 percent CAGR (compounded annual growth rate) since past 20 years."

ROUGH BEGINNING

"Initially, during the regime of Pratap Singh Kairon (first CM of Punjab province), a majority of units that arrived here were micro-sized units. The city failed to attract giant units and thus most units continued to remain as vendors," said Vipin Bajaj, president of Bahadurgarh Chamber of Commerce and Industries (BCCI).

He said that the government bodies tried hard to bring it to the level of Faridabad by introducing Modern Industrial Estate (MIE) through Haryana Urban Development Authority (Huda) in 1973. But, it didn't work.

LIBERALIZATION SPARK

"It's true that Bhadurgarh failed to grow as it was envisioned, but after liberalisation, industries like plastic moulding, machinery fabrication, PVC moulding, tool room for wire and cable moulding, rubber moulding, tile manufacturing etc settled in Bahadurgarh," said Bajaj. They grew without the support of any large unit and diversified the economy of the city.

BCCI general secretary Praveen Garg said, "Faridabad had giant players like Escorts and Eicher, which had the capacity to provide lifeline to around 300 MSMEs. Apart from this, larger units enhanced the liquidity flow in the market with the aggressive marketing strategy, while in case of small units; they needed to work on a lower profit margin."

"The emergence of Bahadurgarh as a plastic hub resulted in growth of the footwear industry. Many footwear units relocated themselves here in the past decade. The Haryana government also instituted a footwear park in Bahadurgarh which is contributing around Rs 2,000 crore per annum to the city's economy," said Garg. He added that the Haryana government was instrumental in attracting larger units to the region in its industrial estate, which contributes around Rs 3,000 crore — around 40 percent of the city's turnover.

CURRENT POTENTIAL

"Now, there are around 30 giant players, including Hindustan National Glass and Industries Ltd, Hindware, Surya Roshni Lighting, Action Shoes, Diamond Industries, Relaxo, Parley G etc. However, they are largely self reliant. They don't outsource much business to feed small enterprises as in the case of Maruti or Escorts. Apart from footwear, rest of the industries are still not enough to garner that much of business from the existing giant players," said Garg.

Elaborating on the industries operating in Bahadurgarh, Garg said, "Today, there are around 500 units of footwear in Bahadurgarh contributing around one-third of the net turnover of the city. Apart from this; there are iron and steel fabrication, plastic industry, rubber industry, machinery fabrication, auto components, wires and cable manufacturing industry, pharma, sanitary, ceramics, medical equipment manufacturing industry etc." Â

Garg was of the opinion that such a diversification and emergence of footwear industry in the region was due to the massive expansion in the consumer durable items and its consumption.

On annual turnover of Bahadurgarh, Vipin Bajaj said, "As per the income tax and revenue department, they have garnered around Rs 300 crore from the industries operating here. So, net turnover of the city would be around Rs 6,000 crore. Apart from this, there are some (large) units that file I-T returns in Delhi, though they have unit(s) in Bahadurgarh. Therefore, the net annual turnover of Bahadurgarh would be near Rs 7,500 crore."

EXPORT BIZ

Bahdurgarh units are in exports also. "As per BCCI records, Bahadurgarh-based units have exported to nearly 70 countries in the past year mostly to the US, Canada, Europe and West Asia," said Bajaj of BCCI. "These units generated around 10 percent of the net revenue through exports. Therefore, net export of the city is around Rs 750 crore per annum. Major export items are footwear, pharmaceuticals and medical equipment, sanitary and ceramics, auto components etc."

"The city remained to lag behind because of lack of industrial innovation," added Garg. On the job creation front, "The region has created 25,000 direct jobs and the same number of indirect jobs. However, for such a large workforce there is no fully equipped hospital," concluded Garg of BCCI. 

Finalize shifting of auto market from metro route: HC

 Dec 28, 2012,

GURGAON: The Haryana government has been ordered by Punjab and Haryana high court to finalize the land for shifting of the proposed automobile market from Sector 9 to make sure that the work on the Delhi- Bahadurgarh Metro line doesn't suffer any hiccups.

On December 18, the double bench of Justice Jasbir Singh and Justice Rameshwar Singh Malik had taken up the petition and had given the order to expedite the shifting of the market to the new place.

After the announcement of the ambitious Metro project, it was found that at one station, the state had earmarked land in Sector 9 to set up an automobile market for which a foundation stone was laid in 2004. Now, the proposed land has to be given for Metro project.

Upset with the development, the Bahadurgarh Automobile Association had moved the court seeking direction to the state government to resolve the issue of allotment of land and shifting of the market to the other place. The court also found no justification in delaying the shifting of the market and held that it is in interest of the public if all the auto dealers are made to work at one place.

The petitioners submitted in the court that the land in Sector 9 was acquired and the process of setting up the market had started in 2004. Later, the petitioners came to know that the land is required for extending the Metro Line of the DMRC from Delhi to Bahadurgarh.

The state government council had informed the court a high-level committee, is working on the project of developing a Transport Nagar in Sector 17 by the HSIIDC.

The council also submitted that the process of acquiring land in the new place is pending for past one year.The court gave three months to the state government to finalize the land and shift the automobile market.

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