8th, July, 2022

Topic: Industrial Infrastructure

Importance: Himachal HPAS Prelims and Mains

What is the news?

• The state government presented a case for the inclusion of Una in the Amritsar Kolkata, Industrial Corridor (AKIC) project at the meeting of the Apex Monitoring Authority for National Industrial Corridor Development Programme (NICDP) in Delhi.

Industries Minister Bikram Singh shared:

• Una is just 80 km from the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial area and has the potential of becoming another industrially-developed district.
• Una district is well connected with a road and rail network and the state government has already proposed a Bulk Drug Park and an EV Park there.
• Una district has the state’s first Food Park and seven developed industrial areas, besides a few upcoming industrial areas with a total land parcel of around 2,000 acres.

How inclusion will be beneficial?

• The inclusion of Una under the AKIC project will help provide impetus to industrial development in the district and will also provide an economic boost to neighboring districts comprising almost 50 percent of the state’s population.

(Source: The Tribune)

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