West Bengal to build a jewellery park to rehabilitate gold artisans

Many gold artisans have lost their jobs due to demonetization and the West Bengal government plans to rehabilitate them by building a jewelry park - it will be the third of its kind and will be in the vicinity of Belgharia Expressway in Howrah.
The place has road links to Kolkata, Howrah, Kharagpur and Durgapur and is hardly 12-Km from the central business district while the airport is at a distance of 22-Km.
This has been reported in telegraphindia.com dated 14 February 2017.

The proposed jewellery park, pegged at Rs 80crore, will be developed as a public-private-partnership project on an eight-acre plot and the authorities are in negotiations with an Italian company who will prepare the design of the park. The plan is to complete construction within two years. There will be a two-storeyed Standard Design Factory (SDF) and its upper floor will accommodate 1,000 manufacturing units and employ at least 25,000 gold artisans at a time.
The park will cater to both retail and wholesale customers with special thrust on export of gems and jewellery.
Of course, there is a similar hub at another location just a few kilometres away which raises questions about viability of having two similar hubs so near to each other.


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