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Karnataka
By Our Staff Correspondent
This is expected to attract investment of Rs. 176.06 crore and create employment opportunities for 1,429 people. During the plan period, the Karnataka Industrial Area Development Board (KIADB) will develop 300 acres of land at Kushalnagar in Somwarpet taluk into industrial sites.
The Karnataka State Small Industries Development Corporation (KSSIDC) is developing an industrial estate there. Those in possession of land, including sites allotted by the KIADB and the KSSIDC, and intending to establish small-scale industries can make use of the plan, S.B. Bojendra, Joint Director of DIC, told The Hindu on Wednesday. The units proposed to be set up before 2005 include resource-based and demand-based ones. Rice and flour mills, coffee roasting and grinding units, and those manufacturing coffee beverages, pickles and chutney, banana chips, beaten rice, processed spices, fruit bars and toffees, fuel from coffee husk, wooden furniture, polished stones, mosaic tiles, poultry and cattle feed, and scented supari are some of the units proposed to be set up in the resource-based category. In the demand-based sector, units manufacturing confectionery, bakery products, ice-cream, notebooks and registers, paper bags and envelopes, aerated and distilled water, plastic bangles, PVC pipes and fittings, schoolbags, dusters and sprayers, paints and varnish, candles, rolling shutters, barbed wire, steel furniture, agarbathis, and automobile servicing and repair units have been planned. Mr. Bojendra said that since coffee was the major commercial crop of Kodagu, units manufacturing value-added products such as instant coffee and chocolates could be started here. More thrust was being given to establishing coffee curing units. Owing to the availability of cane, bamboo, and wood, units which required them as raw material could be encouraged. A survey had suggested that village and cottage industries in the tertiary sector, supporting agriculture and other occupations in the primary sector, also needed to be strengthened. He said the DIC planned to identify entrepreneurs to promote cold storage units. A mini tool-room and training centre would be set up. There was good potential to start a software technology park in Kushalnagar. A proposal had been sent to the Adichunchanagiri Math which had evinced interest in setting up a rural development and self-employment training institute there.
Present scenario
Kodagu has not made any significant strides in industrial development. Lack of entrepreneurship and industrial infrastructure, power shortage, absence of proper roads and railway link, opposition to setting up heavy and medium industrial units for fear of pollution, and preference for plantations among investors are cited to be some of the main reasons for the district's industrial backwardness. Commercial vehicles can travel between 500 km. and 600 km. a day in industrially developed districts. This distance ranged between 200 km. and 250 Km in Kodagu, according to an analysis made by the DIC. Heavy rainfall is said to be the reason for the bad state of roads. Kodagu has no national highway. The length of State highways is only 300 km. and major district roads 804 km. Lack of human resources too is cited as a factor contributing to industrial backwardness. As on March 31, 2001, there are 2,774 tiny and small-scale industrial units registered in Kodagu with an investment of Rs. 452.28 crore, providing employment to 20,379 people. There are 1,027 units in Madikeri taluk, 1,018 in Somwarpet, and 729 in Virajpet. Among them are 754 food- and agro-based industries with an investment of Rs. 235.68 crore, providing employment to 6,113 people. Agro- and food-based industries along with wood industries constitute 38 per cent of the number of industries. There are 235 units engaged in the manufacture of agriculture implements and coffee processing machinery, and fabrication works. Important crafts of the district are beekeeping, carpentry, and iron, cane, and bamboo works.
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