JUTE PARK

A Jute Park in Cooch Behar, at last !

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 4: West Bengal State Industrial Development Corporation (WBSIDC) has called Expression of Interest (EOI) from diversified jute product manufacturers for the Cooch Behar Jute Parks Infrastructure Limited (CJPIL). EOI was also called for another Jute Park in this state – at Murshidabad.

 

WBSIDC sources said the CJPIL is a special purpose vehicle for creation, expansion and development of an integrated Jute Park in Cooch Behar. It shall develop the project and provide all basic infrastructure and common facilities as may be required for setting up and operation of the proposed Jute Park. This includes standard design factory, research and development centre and testing laboratory, wet processing facility, raw material store and warehousing, administrative and CFC building, exhibition and marketing hall, loading and unloading terminal, power and water supply, sewerage, drainage and sanitation, telecommunication facilities, parking canteen banking facilities, crèche and so on.

 

The proposed Jute Park is situated at Chakchaka Industrial Estate on around 30-acre land. It is at a distance of 4-kilometre from Cooch Behar town and one-kilometre from New Cooch Behar Railway Station. The CJPIL invited manufacturers of jute diversified products for allotment of land within the Jute Park and accordingly invited EOI from them.

 

Welcoming the development, secretary of Cooch Behar District Industrialists' Welfare Association Mr Depak Mundra, said, at last Cooch Behar was going to have the much-awaited Jute Park. It will be beneficial for the jute growers of this region. It may also boost up the industrialisation process in this district, which is to improve the socio-economic situation too, Mr Mundra hoped.

 

It may be recalled that during a visit to Cooch Behar in August 2008 the state cottage and small-scale industries minister Mr Manabendra Mukherjee had disclosed that the Centre has approved the setting up of the proposed Jute Park in Cooch Behar. He also hoped that the work for setting up of the proposed Jute Park might begin soon. []

 

Art Fair

 

COOCH BEHAR, Feb. 4: An art fair organised by Maya Chitram Art Institute is going on at Uday Shankar Gallery of the institute in Cooch Behar since 31 January. It will continue till 6 February. []