Nishikant Khajuria
JAMMU, Apr 9: In a bid to check alleged land mafia in Industrial Estates, Divisional Level Single Window Clearance Committee of the Department of Industries and Commerce today cancelled 103.5 Kanals of land allotted to 34 provisionally registered units at Kathua and Bari Brahmana in Jammu region.
The cancellation has been ordered as these allottees failed to establish their units on the land even after years since the allotment. These erring units were allotted industrial land on lease basis.
According to an official spokesman, the decision for cancellation of the allotment was taken at a meeting of the Divisional Level Single Window Clearance Committee, held under the chairmanship of Director Industries and Commerce, Jammu, Dr Abdul Rashid.
The Committee took serious note of the allotted land having left unused and idle by the allottee entrepreneurs. After detailed discussions, a decision was taken to cancel the allotments on 101 Kanals of land at Kathua and 2.5 Kanal land at Bari Brahmana in the Jammu division.
While majority of the erring units were given two to four kanals of industrial land, a few were allotted bigger areas. For example, M/s R P Pigments Pvt Ltd, was allotted 20 kanals of land at IID Centre Govindsar, Kathua.
The land, which had been unnecessarily locked and blocked, will be allotted to genuine prospective entrepreneurs in the next meeting of the Committee, the spokesman added.
The industrial units, whose allotment has been cancelled, include M/s Ambay Industries, IID Centre Govindsar; M/s Hardcastle Petrofer Pvt Ltd, Unit III, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Bhagwati Steel Tubes, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Bhagwati Profiles, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua, M/s R V Industries, Industrial Estate Billawar, Kathua; M/s SPIC Surgicals, IID Centre, Kathua; M/s Bhagwati Battery, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Sam Polymers, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua, M/s Uravi Wdge Lamps, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Pristine Paper, IID Centre Kathua; M/s J K Enterprises, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Atul Industries, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s J P Industries, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua, M/s Sail Poly Products, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua, M/s Krishna Roller Flour Mills, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Jammu Rubber Industries, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua, M/s Sarmal Steel Fabrication, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Himalaya Dairy, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Janta Steel Fabrication, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Mahalaxmi Transformer Industries, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s R R Pigments Pvt Ltd, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Shiv Shakti Products, SIDCO Industrial Area Kathua; M/s PGD Goldcheck Pvt Ltd, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Ganesh Pipes, SIDCO Industrial Area Kathua, M/s Shree Sain Plastic Industries, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Sonal Paints & Coating Ltd, Unit-II, SIDCO Industrial Area, Kathua; M/s Shivam Enterprises, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Kashmir Bat, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s I K Bat Manufacturing, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s International Bat Factory, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Durga Tiles, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s Sai Ram Tubes, IID Centre Govindsar Kathua; M/s But Byte Industries, SIDCO Industrial Complex, Bari Brahmana and M/s M R Enterprises, Industrial Complex Bari Brahmana.
The significant decision of canceling the allotted land has been taken amidst reports that a land mafia was operating in guise of industrialist, who were getting the industrial land allotted for establishing unit and then subletting it on higher rates.
Meanwhile, the Committee also cleared the cases of 15 entrepreneurs and allotted 40.12 Kanals of land to them for establishing their units. These units are likely to generate employment for 226 persons and will result in investment to plant and machinery to the tune of about Rs 7.32 crores.
Those present in the meeting included, Showkat Chowdhary Regional Director, J&K State Pollution Control Board, R L Tikoo Managing Director, J&K, SICOP, Sanjeev Rathore Superintending Engineer, M&RE Circle-Kathua, Ramesh Chander Menia Superintending Engineer, M&RE Circle Batote, Rifat Kohli Joint Director (M&P), Industries & Commerce, A K Chibber Executive Engineer,(ED-II),PDD Jammu and Vikram Gupta General Manager, J&K, SIDCO.
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