24 units to come up in Cooch Behar Industrial Growth Centre

Kolkata: With the development of necessary infrastructure in the industrial growth centre in Cooch Behar's Chakchaka, 24 units producing different types of goods will start functioning within the next few months. It will lead to the generation of around 2,156 jobs.

Amit Mitra, the state Commerce and Industry minister, in the Assembly on Tuesday said 24 units will come up in the industrial growth centre on a land of 20.68-acre.

He said authorities of the companies, who will set up 21 out of 24 units, have already made the payment that is required to set up the units.

They have also got the plots where the units will come up and it is expected that the units will start functioning in the next eight to ten months.

The 21 units will be set up on around a land of 16.51 acre in the industrial growth centre. He further said: "There will be generation of 2,038 jobs in the 21 units." In the same breath, Mitra said as per the detailed project report, there will be a total investment of Rs 6831.98 lakh. For the 21 out of 24 units, there will be an investment of Rs 5886 lakh.

It has also been stated that the authorities of the remaining three units will take the necessary move forward soon to set up their units in the industrial growth centre.

It may be mentioned that the industrial park at Chakchaka was set up during the Left Front regime and it was actually developed as a Jute Park. But there was no proper infrastructure. As a result, it failed to attract investment.

After the change of guard, the Mamata Banerjee government took initiative and given a major facelift to the Jute Park and developed it as an industrial growth centre where units for production of different products can be set up instead of only jute factories.

Mitra said: "Our government has developed infrastructure including 1.85 km long road, 56 street lights, laying of pipeline for a stretch of 1.2 km, overhead water reservoir for supply of safe drinking water, surface drainage system, power sub-station and administrative office in the industrial growth centre and it played a key role in attracting more investment."