Large & Medium Industries Minister M.B. Patil on Tuesday appealed to the national industrial corridor apex body to consider establishing an industrial corridor in KGF.
He made the appeal while participating through videoconference in a meeting of the Apex Monitoring Authority of National Industrial Corridor Development and Implementation Trust (NICDIT) chaired by Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in Delhi.
Mr. Patil informed the meeting that 3,600 acres of land belonging to BEML in KGF could be used for the purpose. He opined that if this project becomes a reality, then it would become one of the prominent industrial hubs on the Bengaluru-Chennai industrial corridor and create a lot of job opportunities. He said the proposal regarding the project would be submitted to the apex body soon.