SHIMLA-15 January, 2025-While presiding over the fifth meeting of the High Powered Committee of State Implementing Agency (SIA) of Bulk Drug Park (BDP) here today, Industries Minister Harshwardhan Chauhan emphasized to expedite the work of Bulk Drug Park by all departments on priority basis. He said that that an amount of Rs. 50 crore has been released for Bulk Drug Park and the state was committed to execute this park in time bound manner.

Industries Minister said that the Construction, Operation and Maintenance of Zero Liquid Discharge (ZLD), steam generation and solid waste management would be clubbed together in single bid on Engineering Procurement and Construction Model (EPC model). He also directed the Project Management Consultancy firm to prepare Operation and Maintenance parameters of these technical utilities.

The solar power projects will be set-up on the land in and around the Bulk Drug Park for meeting the power requirements. He also directed to constitute an advisory panel of Bulk Drug Park experts for getting their inputs in executing the park.

The Industries Minister directed to constitute a technical committee under the chairmanship of Chief Engineer PWD, Hamirpur Zone for vetting of technical bid of tender document. He also reviewed the actions taken on key decisions in fourth meeting of high powered committee.

The committee allowed floating tender for site development, boundary wall, internal roads amounting to Rs. 460 crore in phase-I of Bulk Drug Park. Out of 1400 acre land, 800 acre will be developed in phase-I.

Earlier, Director Industries and MD-Cum-CEO of State Implementing Agency of Bulk Drug Park Dr. Yunus made a detailed presentation indicating recent development related to Bulk Drug Park.

Additional Chief Secretary Industries R.D. Nazeem, MD HPSIDC Rajeshwar Goel, Additional CEO Industries Tilak Raj Sharma and other senior officers of various departments were also present in the meeting.