Facts about
Navi Mumbai and comments
By Dinesh
Kamath
Fact:
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CIDCO
A government proposal to allot a plot in Navi Mumbai
to the Videocon group is likely to be withdrawn. The City and Industrial
Development Corporation (CIDCO), the nodal agency of the city, is all set to
send details of the stalled project to the state government. Former deputy
chief minister Ajit Pawar has said the plot would not be allotted as Videocon
had failed to start its project despite the passage of several years.
Comment:
Videocon is the same company to whom the state
government had approved to allot 100 hectares of land in 2008 and that too for
just Rs 300 crore. This had given birth to a controversy. Videocon did have a
noble idea. They wanted the plot to set up a film transistor liquid crystal
display plant. This would provide direct and indirect employment to 10,000
people. But that didn’t mean that state government could pass on to Videocon
the plot that is worth Rs 3,500 crore for just Rs 300 crore. The then revenue minister
Narayan Rane had even threatened to resign and rightly so. The plot should not
be allotted to the Videocon not only because it has failed to start its project
but also because city should not suffer a loss.
Fact:
Galata Chemicals announced the grand opening of its
newest Technical Center
in Navi Mumbai , India .
Comment:
This is indeed a great thing to happen. This will
bring about technological development in Navi Mumbai. This center will come up
with innovative solutions. The Technical
Center offers a full
range of analytical and testing capabilities in support of product and
application development efforts as well as marketing and technical service for
the area customers. The Technical
Center is focused on
providing high quality, reliable and innovative products. The company will recruit
talented scientists and this will provide employment to technical brains. The
opening of this Technical
Center is indeed one of
the best things to happen.
Fact:
Kakrapar Atomic Power Station of Nuclear Power Corporation
in Tapi, Gujarat , Lanco Infratech in Korba,
Chhattisgarh and Nobel Synthetics, Navi Mumbai, have bagged safety awards for
2011. The awards, instituted by the National Safety Council of India, are given
to organisations in the manufacturing, construction and MSME sector.
Comment:
It is a thing of pride that Nobel Synthetics, Navi
Mumbai has bagged the prestigious safety award for 2011. It received the award
in the medium and small sector. NSCI, an autonomous organisation set up by the
Labour Ministry in the field of occupational safety and health, has been
awarding organisations since 1998. Nobel Synthetics of Navi Mumbai deserves a
lot of praise for having caught the attention of Labour Ministry and was chosen
for this prestigious award.
Fact:
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Ganesh Naik
Thane guardian minister Ganesh Naik has directed the
local administration to recruit the sons of Mathadi labourers in the work
force.
Comment:
Ganesh Naik, the strongest man of Navi Mumbai, is
right in wanting the sons of Mathadi labourers to be recruited. He wants the
sons of those Mathadi labourers who have resigned to get jobs.
Naik, as everybody knows, belongs to Nationalist
Congress Party (NCP). Now the Mathadi workers load and unload goods and work in
various godowns as well as project sites. They are spread across Maharashtra and have a strong union which supports the
NCP. That’s another reason why Naik has gone out of the way to support the
Mathadi workers. He even went to the extent of directing CIDCO to identify land
to construct homes for the labourers. He also directed officials to follow up
with the railways to provide basic sanitation facilities at railyards.
Fact:
German drugs and chemicals group Merck KGaA plans to
make its Indian chemicals units in Navi Mumbai a global competence centre to
cater to markets in select product segments, apart from being a customer
training and application development location.
Merck has currently seven such competence centres
located in Germany , Japan , Taiwan ,
Korea , Brazil , China
and the US .
The Indian unit will be its eighth and will be part of the global network of
Merck’s production and application training centres.
By being a global competence centre, the Navi Mumbai
facility will also provide consumer training to its local and foreign clients,
apart from being an international sourcing base for performance chemicals such
as effect pigments and cosmetics.
Comment:
It is a thing of pride that a company of high
standard like Merck has chosen Navi Mumbai to make its Indian chemicals units here
a global competence centre. Both the government at the Center and State and
also local government bodies should extend all the cooperation to Merck in
achieving their ambition. The substantial amount of investments in terms of
infrastructure, technology and people should be provided to Merck without
hesitation since their intentions are absolutely noble and clean.
Also it is a globally competitive project which primarily
caters to industries such as paint, packaging and printing, brand protection
including anti-counterfeit solutions, and cosmetics. Merck has about 40% market
share in India
in this segment. There is a big local market for performance chemicals including
pigments, plastics and printing material, cosmetics and others.
That is the reason why Merck looks at India ,
especially Navi Mumbai, as a very important market globally.
Expanding its clientele base both among the large
corporations and small and medium enterprises at a faster pace is high on the
company’s agenda. Setting up a global network centre here to provide both
product-related services as well as application and development consultancy
will help achieving this goal faster.
Thus it is obvious that India and Merck and most
importantly, Navi Mumbai, will stand to benefit if the plan materializes.
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