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Engineering and Auto

GUJARAT ENGINEERING AND AUTO MANUFACTURING HUB
  • Gujarat’s excellent trade and transportation networks create better market access and trade flows for companies.
  • Highly industrialized state, with more than 38 % of GDP contributed by secondary sector
  • 12 Special Investment Regions of more than 100 sq km each being planned.
  • 40 % of the planned Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor route is through Gujarat.
  • 9,607 Industrial Entrepreneurs Memoranda (IEM) filed till June 2010 with an estimated investment of Rs 7,702 billion and employment potential of 1,941,374
  • Engineering products where Gujarat’s share is greater than 10% in India include:Sponge Iron,Electric Motors,Compressors,Steel Pipes,Ball and Roller Bearings,Construction Machinery,Casting Copper Rods,Textile Machinery,Transmission line Towers,TV Picture Tubes,Submersible Pumps,Environment Control Equipment,Gears
  • Ahmedabad, Anand, Rajkot, Vadodara, Surendranagar, Jamnagar, Mehsana, Panchmahal and Kutch have emerged as important locations of Engineering Industries.

Government Initiatives

  • Awarded best state in e-governance initiatives and employment category in 2008
  • Urban development initiatives for high quality living
  • Simplification of processes and single window approach for investors
  • International campaigns for investment promotion across sectors
  • Wide array of choices for tourists right from heritage monuments, archeological sites , wildlife and beaches
  • Ahmedabad competing for world heritage city status
  • Favourable policy and regulatory environment
  • Industrial Policy 2009– for high quality socio economic development
  • Sectoral policies for promotion of investment and growth
  • Incentives under SEZ and Industrial Area Development
  • Incentives for environment protection
  • A leader in encouraging private participation under public-private partnership concept

Educational infrastructure

  • About 100 degree engineering colleges spread across the state
  • Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar offers 120 seats for courses in Mechanical, Electrical and Chemical Engineering Major courses being offered at college level to support the engineering and auto industry include:
  • Mechanical, electrical and production engineering
  • Fabrication Technology,
  • Instrumentation and Control Engineering
  • Automobile Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Power Electronics
  • Other institutions providing support to the sector include Management Institutes, Space Application Centre, Center for Environmental Planning & Technology, Indo-German Tool Room, Electronics and Quality Development Centre, Entrepreneurship Development Institute etc.
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