Balasore poised to take advantage of its location between two PCPIRs in Haldia and Paradip; Foundation stone laid for an Advanced Plastic Processing Technology Centre (APPTC)
Balasore, Balasore- Chandipur, CENTER & ODISHA, PCPIR, Plastic products cluster - Balasore November 14th. 2010, 4:00pmFollowing is an excerpt from a report in Pioneer.
… Balasore, which has around 70 per cent of the State’s plastic units, would soon turn into a plastic industry hub with this training centre while a plastic park is also in the offing and the work under the Industrial Up-gradation Scheme is in progress. Jena informed that Balasore is very strategically located between two upcoming Petrochemical Investment Regions at Nayachar, Haldia, and Paradip. There is potential for Balasore to be the hub of Plastics Industrial Corridor stretching on the East Coast of India.
Establishment of the APPTC at Balasore would act as a catalyst to stimulate growth of plastic industries in general and plastics processing industries in particular, he said. He said cooperation between the Centre and State is required for development.
State’s Minister of Industries and Steel and Mines Raghunath Mohanty said the APPTC’s intake for this year would be 150 and 100, respectively, for skilled and short-term courses while the full-fledged intake would be 480. The APPTC is being established by the Central Institute of Plastics Engineering and Technology (CIPET) on an area of 8 acres of land allotted by the State Government at a cost of `15 crore, which is being shared equally by the Central and State Governments.
Union Secretary of Chemicals & Petrochemicals M Raman informed that a proposal of the State Government to set up a PCPIR at Paradip has been recommended by the high-powered committee and its final approval is expected shortly. The total employment generation from the OPCPIR is expected to be about 6,48,000 persons, comprising of direct employment to 2.27 lakh and indirect employment to 4.21 lakh.
Balasore should also try to take advantage of its proximity to IIT Kharagpur.
November 15th, 2010 at 1:00 am
It is a good news for people of odisha.Many many thanks to Mr. jena.Our another request that for a NIPER.Now HPCL is planning for asecond refinery in maharashtra.Our staste govt. should invite them to setup a refinery in the proposed PCPIR.
November 15th, 2010 at 3:28 am
Good effort by Srikant Jena. Finally he did something for Odisha. Prof. Baral, whether it will be a institute of national importance? If not we should try for that. This should be a better institute than CIPETs. I expect this to go beyond the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) Dhenkanal mentored by Kamakshya Prasad Singhdeo. All the best.