Rajasthan To Frame New Industrial Policy

The Rajasthan government has initiated an exercise to formulate its new industrial policy to be launched in the next financial year. The new policy will be based on the experiences of the eighth plan to further boost industrialisation of the desert state, an official spokesman said.

The spokesman said the state government had launched its new industrial policy in 1994 emphasising more on easy procedures, export promotion and processing of new materials.

The 1994 policy helped create a good atmosphere of industrial development and the forthcoming policy would take the task further to put Rajasthan in the list of industrially developed states in the country.

He said the exports from the state had increased from Rs 421 crore in 1990-91 to Rs 4,000 crore in the current financial. The total exports during the first four months of the eighth plan was Rs 8,503 crore.

To boost the efforts to promote exports, an industrial park for export promotion had been set up in Jaipur. The Centre had also assured help to the state to set up yet another park, he said.

An inland container depot has been established in Jodhpur besides Jaipur and such depots were proposed to be set up in Bhilwara and Bhiwadi (Alwar) also.

The Central Warehousing Corporation is also in the process of setting up of inland container depots in Udaipur and Kota.