The state is soon going to have its second jewellery park on Belgharia Expressway at a distance of only around 21 km from the Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport.The announcement of setting up of the jewellery park comes at a time when hundreds of workers of the sector had to return to Bengal after losing their jobs in Maharashtra and Gujarat due to demonetisation.
According to the sources in Nabanna, the jewellery park will come up on a plot of around 8 acre of land near the Noapara Metro car shed. There will be about a 1000 workshops and around 25,000 workers can work at the same time in the jewellery park.
There will be all different facilities including design centre, hallmark centre, banks, medical centre, import and export centres in the park itself.
The presence of all facilities under one umbrella in the jewellery park will be beneficial to the companies which will be having their units there. The companies will not have to send their products to any other unit for hallmarking or any such work.It may be mentioned that the first gems and jewellery park had come up in the state at Ankurhati near Domjur in Howrah on a plot of around 6 acre. Taking queue from the success of the earlier park, the decision to set up the second one was taken.
This park will enhance the avenues of jewellery industry and it is expected to catch national and international market.
According to sources, the decision to set up the park on Belgharia Expressway has been taken as it is situated close to the airport and it would take only around 25 minutes to reach the factory from the airport.
Thus, entrepreneurs from abroad and other partsof the country could easily reach the jewellery park from the airport.