BHOPAL: Chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan laid the foundation stone for a Rs 110 crore readymade garment unit of Gokaldas exports at Acharpura in Bhopal on Monday.
Addressing the function, Chouhan said that the state government would soon begin recruitment for 1 lakh posts.
However, he did not speak on other details of the projexct.
Chouhan said that there were immense possibilities in the private sector and in the last 17 months 840 hectares of land was allocated to 384 units in the state. With an investment of Rs 11,000 crore, 22000 people would get employment.
Chouhan said despite the corona crisis, there was an increase of 38% in employment creation, 48% in the number of industrial units and 32% in land allocation. Industry minister Rajwardhan Singh Dattigaon was present on the occasion, while the director of Gokaldas Shivramkrishna Ganpatai was also present.
Chouhan also laid the foundation stone of the textile park. The Rs 110 investment unit would be spread over 10 acre of land and about 4000 people would get employment, of them three-fourths would be women. Spread over 146 hectares of land, there are 154 industrial plots in Acharpura.
He said that the state had started schemes like “start your business in 30 days” and the state now stands at 4th place in the list of ease of doing business. “In the next list, we would be placed in the first three,” he said. Chouhan also said that Atal Progress way and Narmada Express way projects would further give fillip to the industrialization as industrial corridors would be developed along them.
Director of Gokaldas exports said that the products of his companies were exported to European Union , USA and Japan. He said that the production in the Acharpura unit would begin by April next year.
