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| PHDCCI Jammu Conducted Interaction with Naveen Kumar Shukla | | |  Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 30: Rahul Sahai Chair PHDCCI Jammu in his opening remarks said that Multi-Modal Logistics Parks (MMLPs) is a key policy initiative of the Government of India, led by National Highways Logistics Management Limited under Ministry of Road Transport and Highways (MoRTH) and the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI), to develop Multi-Modal Logistics Parks in hub-and-spoke model to improve the country's freight logistics sector by lowering overall freight costs and time, cutting warehousing costs, reducing vehicular pollution and congestion, improving the tracking and traceability of consignments through infrastructural , procedural, and information technology interventions. Sahai welcomed both the dignitaries and introduced various esteemed executive members of PHDCCI with dignitaries .
Naveen Shukla (IRTS) Rtd, Expert Logistics firstly thanked Mr Rahul Sahai for providing the opportunity to interact with PHDCCI Executive Members at a very short notice. Mr Shukla informed the members, that about 30 -35 logistics park are identified in the country and one in Jammu Region also. He said that in Samba the land parcel has been identified which will be connected with expressway rail track and Delhi Katra expressway also. He said that Multi Modal Logistics parks will be one stop solution to take care of all logistics. He said that local industry needs are taken into consideration to develop MMLP.
A detailed presentation was given on MMLP all over India by his team mate and several queries, questions were also answered. Shukla shared that the MMPL will work on PPP model and will be of great benefit for the industry and traders.
Members present in the meeting appreciated the step taken of developing Multi Modal Logistics parks (MMLP) in Jammu region and said that good logistic solutions are required here. They agreed that the freight of trains will be cheaper than the road and will benefit the industry. Timely distribution of material is important and better logistics facilities will be of great help members said. They raised the issue of not having any ICD in J&K.
Uchit Singhal Station Director, Northern Railway, Jammu-Tawi(Jammu Railway Station) briefed the participants about the benefits of Joint Parcel Services. He said that the joint parcel product aims to target the business-to-business and business-to-customer markets by offering a full parcel handling solution, which includes picking up from the sender's premises, booking and doorstep delivery to the recipient. Singhal said he would like to do more sessions with PHDCCI for awareness of people at large.
The meeting ended with the Vote of Thanks from Samar Dev Singh Charak, Co-Chair PHDCCI Jammu Chapter.
Meeting was also attended & Deliberated by Industry members Ashish Jain from (Pharma sector), Jaspal Singh from Samba Industries, Raj Dua a known industrialist, Shantnu Gupta, Vinay Sharma from berger paints (Samba), Amarjeet Singh from Attar singh & sons, Ankush Jain from Solar sector and Amarpreet Singh, Resident Officer and Head PHDCCI Jammu Office. |
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