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| Efforts on to keep units manufacturing essentials, medicines in operation: Dir I&C Jammu | | Over 4800 industrial units functional in J&K UT | |  Early Times Report
Jammu, May 12: More than 4800 industrial units are functional in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, said Director Industries and Commerce, Anoo Malhotra here on Tuesday.
She said that as of today 4802 units (2727 in Jammu division and 2075 in Kashmir division) are functional including large scale, MSMEs and micro enterprises.
As the Jammu and Kashmir Government is fighting to contain the spread of COVID-19 pandemic, it has implemented several precautionary and preventive measures, she said adding that the lockdown that was announced in late March has left a deep impact on the social and economic sectors.
As the administration is dealing with ensuring the safe return of stranded people of J&K from other parts of the country, at the same time it is working 24x7 to ensure that the economic impact due to lockdown is minimised, she added.
The Department of Industries and Commerce, Government of Jammu and Kashmir, Ms Malhotra said, is leaving no stone unturned to mitigate the hardship being faced by the public.
“The role of the Department has becomes all the more crucial as the industries constitute the backbone of our economy and keeping them running during the lockdown to ensure that the supplies of essential items, medicines, masks etc does not run out from the market was a big challenge,” she added and said that in order to ensure uninterrupted supply of essential commodities, during the first phase of the lockdown, all the industries involved in their manufacturing were allowed to function as per the SOP issued by Department of Disaster Management, Relief, Rehabilitation and Reconstruction.
Ms Malhotra said that the department is ensuring hassle free operation of food processing industries, flour mills, milk product industries etc.
She further informed that the agro industries have been allowed to function during these times, considering the seasonal nature of the agricultural sector. “In addition to these the pharma units have also been allowed to run to ensure there is no shortage of life saving medicines in the market”, she added.
Packaging units which cater to essential commodity units are also kept functional.
In the second phase of the lockdown, industries are allowed to function on case to case basis.
All the industries falling in rural areas have been allowed to function to stem the tide of rural labour migration. The cold storage units and ware houses are also allowed to function.
Ms Malhotra said that the Government has allowed the industries to operate only after ensuring strict enforcement of social distancing norms in factory premises, adding, “the Industries and Commerce department has allowed the industries to work at 30 percent of their staff strength, except the pharma sector which has been allowed to function at 60 percent of its staff strength”.
Further, the unit holders have been advised to ensure that masks and sanitizers are provided to the employees. Department of Handloom and KVIB are also manufacturing masks and providing them to the various sectors.
As per the SOP being followed by the industries, separate areas have been earmarked for unloading/loading of trucks bringing raw material from outside the UT.
Commissioner/Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, Manoj Dwivedi who is coordinating all the activities of the Industries and Commerce Department, has reviewed the clearance of outstanding dues of MSMEs and JK Cements pending with other departments by May 15.
He has instructed for daily reporting of the clearance of the outstanding amount so that the MSMEs and JK Cement Unit which are facing severe liquidity crunch can be revived.
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