(a) the number of institutes imparting training for Plastic Industry in the country, location-wise;
(b) the details of incentives being provided for the promotion of the said industry; and
(c) whether the Government proposes to set up such training institutes in every district of the country so that it may prove useful for people to start their own factories after being trained?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF CHEMICALS & FERTILIZERS (SHRI HANSRAJ GANGARAM AHIR)
(a) Central Institute of Plastics Engineering & Technology (CIPET), an autonomous academic and training institute under the Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals caters to human resource and training requirements of the plastics and allied industries in the petrochemical sector through its 23 centres spread across the country which include 05 High Learning Centres located at Chennai, Ahmadabad, Bhubaneswar, Lucknow and Kochi, 11 Diploma Centres at Amritsar, Aurangabad, Bhopal, Guwahati, Haldia, Hajipur, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Mysore, Murthal and Imphal, 01 Vocational Training Centre at Bhubaneswar, 03 Specialized Units viz. Advanced Tooling and Plastics Product Development Centre (ATPDC), Madurai., Advanced Plastics Processing Technology Centre (APPTC), Balasore, Plastic Waste Management Centre at Guwahati, 02 R&D Wings at Chennai and Bhubaneswar and Polymer Data Services (PDS) centre at Gurgaon.
(b) The Government has approved a Scheme for setting up of need based Plastic Parks with requisite state of the art infrastructure and enabling common facilities to assist the sector move up the value chain and contribute to the economy more effectively. The objective of the scheme, inter-alia, is to increase competitiveness and investments, achieve environmentally sustainable growth and adopt the cluster development approach to consolidate the capacities in plastic sector. The implementation of the scheme is envisaged by providing grant-in-aid to the Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) formed by cluster entrepreneurs or any Central/State Government agency in association with user enterprises representing the plastic sector, up to 50% of the project cost subject to a ceiling of Rs. 40 crore per project.
(c) Setting up of CIPET centres is a dynamic process based on the demand and growth of plastic industries and requisite infrastructural and financial support of the State Government. During 2015-16, the Government has approved 05 Centres of CIPET at Dharampur (Gujarat), Baddi (HP), Bhopal (MP), Vijayawada (AP) and Hyderabad /Medak (Telangana). At present there is no proposal to set up CIPET centre in every district of the country.
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