Kanpur: The work in Ramaipur mega leather cluster project, which will be a milestone in the state’s development, is likely to begin within four to six weeks.
Rajeev K Jalan, co-ordinator Ramaipur mega leather cluster and former chairman, Council for Leather Export (CLE) hoped that all hurdles would be removed within a month and entrepreneurs will be able to start the ground breaking work at their allotted land in 4-6 weeks.
Talking to TOI, Jalan said “The project, worth 451 crore, is an ambitious project of the state government which is being monitored by chief minister Yogi Adityanath himself”.
He said the CM had deputed Navneet Sehgal, additional principal secretary, micro, small and medium industry and export promotion as an special officer, who is coordinating and making efforts to remove all hurdles coming in the way of the project.
All concerning departments, he said, are cooperating in this mega project which will stretch in around 250 acres of land.
Industrial development minister Satish Mahana has convened a meeting on Wednesday to discuss the one last hurdle—exchange of land with the government departments concerned.
For this project, Mega Leather Cluster Development UP had purchased contiguous 105 acres of land, from UPSIDA, 45 acres land was purchased directly by special purpose vehicle (SPV) from farmers, 85 acres of gram sabha land to be notified by the district magistrate Kanpur Nagar has been purchased by SPV, Jalan said.
“The cluster will be developed in Kanpur Sadar tehsil whereas 85 acre land has been purchased at Narval tehsil.
Since the land belongs to other tehsil, therefore, land transfer could not take place so far.
Because as per rules, land exchange must be done in the same tehsil”, he said and added the exchange would be cleared by the state government.
The project would provide direct and indirect employment to about 1.5 lakh people.
Most advanced and eco-friendly machinery would be installed in it.
There would be around 200 stand alone plots and around 100 factories in the leather cluster which would have its own 20 mld common effluent treatment plant, Jalan added.