CM Chandrasekhar Rao champion of workers, says K T Rama Rao
One lakh new jobs have been created under the new industrial policy with TSIPASS, the minister said.
KUMARAM BHEEM ASIFABAD: State minister for IT K.T. Rama Rao on Thursday said Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao was a ‘champion of workers’ and was trying to revive various sick industries and closed factories in the state. He said efforts were being made to revive the Bheema cement factory in Nalgonda, Ballarpur (AP Rayon) factory in Mulugu in Warangal and a factory for fertilizers in Ramagundam in Peddapalli.
The minister was addressing a public meeting in Kagaznagar town after participating in a puja on the occasion of the revival of the SPM factory. He said the Birla management of the Orient Cement Factory in Mancherial district is likely to create 3,000 new jobs after investing Rs 2,000 crore for expansion of the factory on persuasion of the state government.
He said they have also helped 60 small and medium factories financially under the industrial health clinic policy. K.T. Rama Rao said the state government was ready to give various subsidies to revive the Adilabad branch of the Cement Corporation of India (CCI) if the Centre came forward to revive it. One lakh new jobs have been created under the new industrial policy with TSIPASS, the minister said.