(a) the number of cement units lying closed in each State as on date;
(b) the reasons for their closure;
(c) the total number of employees engaged in them; and
(d) the steps taken by the Government to revive these units?
(a) the number of cement units lying closed in each State as on date;
(b) the reasons for their closure;
(c) the total number of employees engaged in them; and
(d) the steps taken by the Government to revive these units?
MINISTER OF STATE IN THE MINISTRY OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (DR. RAMAN SINGH)
(a) & (b): Fourteen cement plants are reported closed due to various reasons such as technological obsolescence and economic non-viability. A statement showing the name of cement plants closed, Statewise is annexed.
(c): The information regarding number of employees engaged in them is not maintained centrally.
(d): The Government has taken a number of steps for revival of sick industrial units. These, inter-alia, include guidelines of Reserve Bank of India to Banks, amalgamation of sick units with healthy units and setting up of Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) under Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act.
Annexure referred to in reply to part (a) & (b) of Lok Sabha Unstarred Question No.2031 for answer on 9.3.2001 regarding closed cement units
Sl.No. Name of cement plants/factories closed Name of State
1. CCI, Charkhi Dadri Haryana
2. CCI, Delhi Delhi
3. CCI, Adilabad Andhra Pradesh
4. CCI, Tandur Andhra Pradesh
5. Andhra Cement Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh 6. CCI, Mandhar Chhattisgarh
7 CCI, Akaltara Chhattisgarh 8 CCI, Kurkunta Karnataka
9. CCI, Nayagaon Madhya Pradesh 10. U.P. State Cement Corpn., Churk Uttar Pradesh 11. U.P. State Cement Corpn., Dalla Uttar Pradesh 12 U.P. State Cement Corpn., Chunar Uttar Pradesh 13. Sone Valley Bihar 14. HMP, Porbandar Gujarat