Around 28 mills based on textile and home furnishing goods, considered as popular belt of Parel, Dadar and Lalbaug -Mumbai were shut around 3 decades back specifically due to the unrest labor that showed a reduction up 3lakhs workers of mills to absolutely scarcity. After 28 years of long wait, the three mills have been restarted by the NTC, National Textile Corporation, govt.-owned organization on 19th Jan 2010. Around 2,500workers have been employed including old and new ones.
The three restarted mills were inaugurated by the Minister of Textile, Dayanidhi Maran. India United Mill No 5, Podar Mills and Tata Mills have been modified and modernized at an estimated amount of Rs 73crores supported by equipment imports from Germany and US with the vision of producing 14million tones cloth and 12million kgs yarn on yearly basis.
As per Maran explanations, Mill’s revival was already an important issue under the agenda of 100 days arranged for NTC mills revival and was considered one of the major tasks even before the NTC, which is likely to get modernized with around 22mills all around the country. He said “On 17 mills, work has already been accomplished and with rest, it will get through very soon”
Complexes of the mills were being looked by real estate developers for constructing residential areas, shopping complexes and malls. Maran expressed it very clearly that land would not be sold, moreover, shut mills will again be started during the coming few months.
Approx 100acres of land for mills is still left with NCT with its possession at Mumbai center, current rate being about Rs 20,000/sq.ft which is coming to be Rs 6,000crores of the real estate. Nathuram, an old employee of the mill, started weeping at Poddar mills doors while being opened. “I have worked here for a decade in the year 1982 before the strikes occurred and swept out us of homes and work”.
Lakhs of workers passed away while waiting for the mills to get started again, some went extremely down the poverty line that feeling so neglected lead them towards dying without any support. The only left out hope is that our grandson would get support of working in these mills,” he added.
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