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Special issue to focus on Mysore Industries

Feb 2009

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Mysore, the ethnic township with vibrant traditional values in southern-most Karnataka, bordering Tamilnadu is better known as the cultural capital of Karnataka. However, its existence dates back to the Mahabharata times.

The second largest city in terms of population, Mysore's annual Dasara festival and heritage palaces attract tourists from all over the world. Mysore is famous for silk, lacquer, paintings, sandalwood and incense sticks. The district has abundant forest wealth too.

Economic activity in Mysore and the key drivers of economy

• Major contributor to employment (58% of total worker population)

• Some of the important crops grown here are cotton, grams, groundnut, jowar, maize, ragi, rice, sugarcane, sunflower and tur

• Horticulture and floriculture is another area contributing significantly to the economy, such as oil seeds, mango, vegetables, Mysore Mallige (Jasmine)

• Cauvery and Kabini provide the irrigation needs of the district mainly

• Mysore has over 500 factories employing about 50,000 people and has 22,737 SSI units employing 1, 01,511 workers. There are over 70 medium scale and 26 large scale industries.

• Industries in Mysore district are mainly concentrated around Mysore and Nanjungud. There are seven industrial estates in and around Mysore

INDUSTRIES:

• The traditional products of Mysore such as Mysore Silk, Sandal oil, Handicrafts, etc. are of great commercial importance

• The major industries in Mysore are predominantly heavy engineering, automotive components, Agri based and traditional industries.

Workers constitute almost 45% of the population. However, those engaged in agriculture constitute over 58% of the worker population.

Textile Park, IT Park, Industrial Areas

A 255 acre Textile Park is fast coming up in Kadkoda (Nanjangud taluk), Industrial areas are coming up in Iluvala, Thandavpura, Kadkola and Koorgalli spread over nearly 3,000 acres of land. A 2,000 acre IT park is being developed near Jaipura village. Another12, 000 acres available in land bank. Industrial areas have been identified in many places.

Mysore is also home to the training centre of Infosys Technologies Limited.

Issues facing Mysore

Mysore presently has seven industrial areas around Mysore town. However, all the industrial areas are currently occupied and there is no space existing for a new facility to be set up in the current industrial areas.

Though Mysore is connected with Bengaluruwitha, a 4-lane highway, connectivity with other areas (rail as well as road) remains an issue. Especially, the rail connectivity needs to be improved. While 10,000 passengers travel by rail, additionally about 50,000 travel by road between the two cities on a daily basis.

Imperatives for development

The following are the broad elements of the proposed developmental agenda.

Building capabilities developing new competencies which will aid tangible development such as identifying new industries with potential, developing new skills, commencing initiatives to develop new strengths.

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