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District Industrial Potential Report of Birbhum |
- Birbhum
district is famous for two noble laureates namely
Rabindranath Tagore & Amartya Sen. Besides , it is
one of the prominent religious centre in the state. It
extends an area of 4550 sq.km. which accounts for only
3.76% of the state area of 88752 sq.km. the district
falls under the ‘RARH REGION’, so it has extreme
climate.
- Demographically, the rate of growth of
population is17.88% as against the states average of
17.84% during the period 1991-2001 census.It ranked
third in rural and sixteenth in urban among the
districts of west Bengal in population and its density
is 663 sq.km as against the state population density
of 904 sq. km. as per 2001 census Birbhum rank twelfth
in rural and fifteenth in urban in literacy with 62.16
%. The states literacy rate is 77.58%. Workforce
constitutes 30.77% of the total population and the
remaining 69.23% are non-workers.
The district is
predominantly considered as agricultural district. The
agro-climatic condition is facilitated by the presence
of number of rivers like Mayurakshi, Kopai, Bakreshwar
Siddheswary, Dwarka, etc. the agri-marketing outlet
are in abundance along with the irrigation facilities.
- The
district is also noted for its mineral deposit . due
to the proximity to Jharkhand this district has
potential in mineral deposits. The mineral resources
available for exploitations are coal, china clay, fire
clay, decorative stone, road metal stone.
- In terms of
infrastructure, the district lags behind in many
aspects apart from electricity. Due to the
installation of Bakreshwar thermal power plant, the
district now has abundance of power . Though the
district has one industrial estate in form of Bolpur
Industrial Estate, no more industrial estate has come
up in spite of having open space and resources.
- There was a
growth of 20.98 % of SSI units over the last decade in
the district. The SSI sector lacks product
diversification and technological up gradation . some
of the existing units are very old and require large
scale modernization. There are only 5 large &
medium industries out of which majority are suffering
from under sickness.
- During the
survey, it was observed that small scale sector
suffers from lack of economies of scale , unlike the
large scale units. Moreover, in the context of
liberalization and growing domestic and international
competition, this sector needs support through
promotional policies of credit and technology.
- One of the
main problems of the SSI units in this district is the
lack of subsidy which has not been provided over the
last two years in the district and also the marketing
channels are also not developed.
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During our market survey, we identified ten prospective venture that the
budding entrepreneurs can take up after analyzing the resources
available in the district.
- Entrepreneurial competence is necessary to
succeed in any venture. The district is endowed with
talented entrepreneurs . Keeping in view the
challenging entrepreneurial opportunities at present
and in future in national and international level it
is of paramount importance to promote management
skills of the budding entrepreneurs through
counselling and training so that they succeed in their
endeavor.
Prospective Industries
1. RICE FLAKES
2. RICE MILLING
3. STORAGE
4. COLD STORAGE
5. READYMADE GARMENTS
6. HAWAI CHAPPALS
7. MUSTARD/RAPESEED OIL
8. GATE GRILL
9. HOUSEHOLD FURNITUREFROM M. S. TUBE
10.ROOFING TILES
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