Land allotted for 9 industrial zones in 8 districts of Gujarat

Ahmedabad, Sep 12 (PTI) The Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation will set up nine new industrial zones in eight districts, for which the land has been allotted, state revenue minister Kaushik Patel said Wednesday.

The new industrial zones will come up at Patan, Mehsana, Anand, Rajkot, Morbi, Surendranagar, Bhavnagar, and Gandhinagar districts, the minister said.

"Nine new GIDC zones will come up in the state over 1,050.3 hectare land parcel spanning eight districts," Patel said, adding this will encourage industrialists to set up micro, small, medium enterprises (MSMEs) and will help create employment for local youths. Seventy percent of the land will be offered to interested persons at 50 percent market rate, he said.

The state has also allotted 36.4 hectares for construction of three new Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalayas at Botad and Kothariya in Morbi district and Dhaturiya in Devbhoomi Dwarka district. The government has also allocated 12.5-hectare land at Rajkot's Parapipaliya to Container Corporation of India to construct an inland container depot, an official release said.

The Container Corporation will construct facilities like rail siding, container yards, export-import cargo warehouse, container, and cargo handling facilities, customs office, container repair workshop, trade facilitation zones, among others.