Work begins to improve infrastructure in industrial clusters

Delhi Government today launched a long-pending project under which infrastructure in various industrial clusters in the city will be improved to provide a better environment for growth of clean and non-polluting industries.
In the first phase of the project, infrastructure will be upgraded in the Patpargang and Okhla (Phase III) industrial areas at a total cost of Rs 16 crore.
The project is being implemented by Delhi government's premier infrastructure development agency DSIIDC (Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation).
"We want to encourage non-polluting industries and services sector in the city and that is why to encourage these industries we have decided to improve infrastructure in the industrial clusters," Industries Minister Harun Yusuf said, while launching the project.

Initially, a sum of Rs 9.40 crore will be spent in improving infrastructure in Patparganj industrial area while Rs 6.54 crore will be invested in Okhla industrial area phase III.
Referring to new industrial policy of the Delhi Government, he said it seeks to make the national capital a global hub for clean, high technology industries and services sector.

"A key strategy to achieve this would be through infrastructure development of industrial estates," the minister said.
The minister lauded the efforts of DSIIDC in giving a thrust to the industries in the capital and promised all possible help to industrial associations.

DSIIDC Managing Director Amit Yadav said the agency has deviced a comprehensive plan to revamp the industrial areas in Delhi.
The Patparganj industrial area, which was commissioned in 1992, has 609 industrial units.
The Okhla Industrial estate phase III was developed in 1958 and it has around 260 industrial units.
The DSIIDC will maintain the infrastructure and basic services in the industrial areas for five years.
A DSIIDC official said the agency will complete the construction work in both industrial estates in six months.