Jasmhedpur, Oct. 6: A four-member team of Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited left for Pune yesterday to study the facilities available at the Auto Cluster Development and Research Institute Limited (ACDRIL) there.
The team on four-day visit to Pune consists of top officials of Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited. They boarded the Pune flight on Sunday with the objective to study the facilities available in one of the country’s best auto cluster as the Adityapur Industrial Area (AIA) is all set to get Eastern India’s maiden auto cluster. It would be developed under the Central government-funded Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme.
The delegates of Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited visiting Pune said the ACDRIL was also developed under the Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme of the department of industrial policy and promotion, ministry of commerce and industries.
“We decided to visit the Pune-based auto cluster before starting our project because ACDRIL happens to be one of its kind auto cluster in the country. We are definitely going to implement the good practices of ACDRIL at the project in our area,” S.N. Thakur, the director of Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited, told The Telegraph over phone from Pune.
He also said the chairman of Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited and managing director of Adityapur Small Industries Association (ASIA), Nitin Madan Kulkarni, is also part of the team visiting the Pune-based auto cluster.
The other members of team are R.K. Behra, the chief managing director of RSB Group of Company, and company secretary of AACL P.K. Singh.
The Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited members decided to visit the Pune-based auto cluster as it houses most of the facilities, which are due to come up at the Adityapur-based cluster.
The upcoming auto cluster here would have a hi-tech laboratory, effluent treatment plant and hazardous waste management facility.
According to Thakur, the ACDRIL at Pune envisages promoting innovation and collective learning as well as creating suitable customised infrastructure support and service network. It is also into promoting product design and development through focused support.
Thakur said since an identical cluster is coming up in eastern India for the first time, Adityapur Auto Cluster Limited officials are not sure of what additional facilities it should have and so the team is on a visit to Pune.
“We are learning a lot from the trip, which when implemented at our cluster, will enhance its utilisation. The cluster is also trying to rope in big corporate houses from the steel city with an aim to learn from their expertise,” added Thakur.
