Over 60 MSME industry owners have demanded better industrial infrastructure including uninterrupted supply of power, sufficient water supply provision and better transport arrangement at the industrial parks of Kandra and Sindri area of Jharkhand Industrial Area Development Authority.

The demands were made at a recent meeting of MSME industry owners with Kriti Sriji, regional director of Jharkhand Industrial Area Development Authority.

Talking to The Telegraph Online on Monday, noted industrialist of Dhanbad, Rajiv Sharma who is also the general secretary of Jharkhand Industries and Trade Association said, “The demand for regular power supply was on the priority list as despite the fact that around 20 hours of electricity supply is carried out every day but a power cut for four hours takes place during the crucial commercial hour causing great production loss for us.”

“We demanded the regional director of JIADA to coordinate with Jharkhand Bijli Vitran Nigam Limited to avoid the power cuts during the crucial commercial hours,” said Sharma and added prior information about the power cut schedule can help in avoiding losses to a great extent.

“We also demanded to coordinate with the DVC to ensure direct connection for industrial units so that the disruption to plant operation due to repeated power failure can be avoided,” said Sharma and they simultaneously demanded solar plate connection arrangement for all streetlights at Sindri and Kandra based industrial parks.

“The second most important requirement for industry is water requirement both for drinking purpose and also for industrial usage but due to scarce water supply the industrials units situated at Kandra and Sindri Industrial parks had to face a lot of difficulties” said Sharma who himself owns a small electrical equipment manufacturing unit at Kandra Industrial Area of Govindpur.

“We can’t understand the reason for the improper water supply arrangement at the industrial parks as the civic bodies can have good source of income by making supply of water at commercial rate to the industrial parks,” said Ashish Dudani another MSME owner of Kandra Industrial park of JIADA and suggested that water supply can be easily augmented at Kandra Industrial area through the Bheltand Based Water treatment plant of Dhanbad Municipal Corporation.

He also raised the issue of water logging due to improper drainage system at Kandra and demanded upgradation of the drainage system at Kandra with immediate effect to create an ambience conducive to industrial growth in the park.

“The outcome of meeting was quite fruitful as the regional director assured to initiate measures on a number of our suggestions as we simultaneously raised the issue for better transport facility to ensure arrival of workers in the factory from distant areas as well as the transport of raw material and finished goods from and to the industry,” said an Industry owner Harendra Singh.