Daijiworld Media Network – Bengaluru (EP)
Bengaluru, Aug 24: “Karnataka stands first place for second year in succession in attracting capital investment. Proposals for Rs 1.4 lac crore have been received for investment till June, 2017 as per estimates”, said R V Deshpande, minister of industries and infrastructure development on Wednesday, August 23.
“The state was in eleventh position in 2013, fifth position in 2014 and fourth position in 2015 as per figures by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion of the Ministry of Commerce in New Delhi,” he added.
R V Deshpande
“The state bagged first position with a proposal of Rs 1.54 lac crore investments in 2016 and has reserved its first position this year also. The single window committee has approved 1,823 industrial projects worth Rs 3.34 lac crores during the last four years. It has created a total of 14.19 lac jobs in small, medium and large scale industries including 1.89 lac in large scale industries,” he informed.
“An amount of Rs 5 lac crore investment and creation of fifteen lac jobs were targeted under industrial policy for the period 2014-2019,” he said.
New Jobs creation
“Job prospects are facing a danger due to automation and digitalization. More than 60% engineering graduates are becoming jobless. More than 20 lacs man days are getting wasted in a year. Therefore a new policy of giving fillip to manufacturing dolls, mobile phones, tablets, electronic equipments and their assembly is being prepared,” he announced.