Industrial Progress
Manipur has made some progress in the setting up of small scale industrial
units of which some 7700 have been set up. A joint sector plant to manufacture
drugs and pharmaceuticals has been commissioned and electronic goods,
Steel fabrication articles and plastic goods are being produced in the
state. A cement plant has also come up in Manipur. Among other industries
a spinning mill, a ghee manufacturing unit and similar factories to make
other consumer products have been commissioned up to 2000AD and a profile
of a number of industries which could be set up in the state has been
prepared.
Training
facilities have also been created to enable the young men and woman to acquire
technological capability and provide industries with ready made trained
man power. A centre for electronic design and technology and the
central institute of plastic Engineering and Technology have been set up at Imphal.
A
factory is already making colour and black and white, TV sets. |