What Is The Point Of An Industrial Township?

By Author: Monarch Shah
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When it comes to setting up a micro, small or medium sized business there are usually three options available to us.
1. You try to set up the business somewhere inside the city limits. The main advantage of this is that your business is easy to reach. Your workforce and your raw material reach quickly and your finished goods are dispatched without trouble. All the urban amenities and safety infrastructure such as MIDC Ambernath are close at hand. But the drawback is that you are hamstrung by high land price or rent. You are likely to be under very stringent environmental rules since you start off your work in an already polluted and stressed habitat. You are also exposed to every political incident or religious occasion.

2. If you go to the outskirts of the city you can acquire more space and set up a business with some style. It may appeal to your investors and customers. However there is usually a steep tapering off of urban amenities in the outskirts of our cities and the surroundings of your business would not be very appealing. Connectivity will suffer since the traffic in the outskirts tend to be as congested ...
... but less well managed than inside the city. You may be obliged to select your workforce from only among the residents of that part of town since commuting right across the city is not a palatable option for most employees.

3. The third option is to look for a special economic zone or an industrial park or industrial estate in Ambernath. These areas are usually at an awkward distance from the city which causes all sorts of pain commuting to and fro. There is also the permanent worry that once the tax holiday ends many industries will shift away from the area, leaving connected industries in the lurch.

The last and unfortunately rare option is setting up your industry in an industrial township. There was a time when you needed to be a Tata to set up a Jamshedpur or Tatanagar. Now, with the advent of bold new concepts such as private investment in building infrastructure, flatted industrial townships have come into existence. These provide a total solution for residence, aesthetics. business and manufacturing.