APPENDIX II
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Production of principal crops in the
Gurdaspur District
(thousand metric tons)
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Crops |
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1967-68 |
1968-69 |
1969-70 |
1970-71 |
1971-72 |
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Cereals |
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Rice |
.. |
95.0 |
109.0 |
105.0 |
131.0 |
139.0 |
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Wheat |
.. |
162.0 |
248.0 |
321.0 |
295.0 |
293.0 |
|
Bajra |
.. |
2.0 |
0.9 |
0.8 |
3.0 |
3.0 |
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Maize |
.. |
42.0 |
29.0 |
33.0 |
40.0 |
37.0 |
|
Jawar |
.. |
.. |
0.1 |
0.1 |
.. |
|
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Barley |
.. |
7.0 |
4.9 |
4.9 |
5.0 |
7.0 |
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Pulses |
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|
|
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|
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Gram |
.. |
4.0 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
4.0 |
5.0 |
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Moong |
.. |
0.14 |
0.34 |
0.07 |
0.1 |
0.06 |
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Mash |
.. |
3.87 |
4.69 |
4.30 |
5.3 |
4.69 |
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Massar |
.. |
2.45 |
1.85 |
1.65 |
1.1 |
0.91 |
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Oil Seeds |
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Groundnut |
.. |
(b) |
(b) |
.. |
.. |
.. |
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Rape and Mustard |
.. |
1.9 |
2.1 |
3.0 |
2.4 |
2.5 |
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Seaamum |
.. |
2.06 |
1.70 |
1.70 |
3.1 |
3.2 |
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Linseed |
.. |
0.57 |
0.45 |
0.28 |
0.3 |
0.3 |
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Other Crops |
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Sugarcane |
.. |
54.0 |
65.0 |
94.0 |
88.0 |
80.0 |
|
Cotton American |
.. |
0.07 |
.. |
.. |
0.05 |
0.05 |
|
Cotton desi |
.. |
0.63 |
0.56 |
0.58 |
0.61 |
0.62 |
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Potatoes |
.. |
5.4 |
2.0 |
4.8 |
2.6 |
6.2 |
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Chillies |
.. |
0.01 |
.. |
(b) |
.. |
.. |
(Statistical Abstracts of Punjab 1968 to 1972)
(b) Denotes less than 50 metric tons.
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(a) |
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(b) |
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© |
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(d) |
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(e) |
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(f) |
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(g) |
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(h) |
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(i) |
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(j) |
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(k) |
INDUSTRIES
(a) Old-Time Industries and
Industrial Develoment
Industrially, Gurdaspur has not been quite important till recently. The old-time industries were few and their growth was limited to local needs. People needed then, as they do now, necessities of life like cloth, oil, iron, utensils, agricultural implements, house fitting and furniture etc. The main occupations of the people were blacksmithy, goldsmithy, carpentry, pottery, handloom, weaving, shoe-making, rope-making, and cattle nalband (shoeing). Besides, brick making grinding of flours by gharats (water mills), hand pounding of rice, etc., can also be counted as the ancient type of industries in the district. Sheep rearing, breeding of milch cattle, flaying of leather and tanning with crude processes, etc., were also occupations of the different communities in the district. Women used to do embroidery work such as kassedakari, etc. These industries exist mostly in the rural areas even to this day. But unable to complete with factory products, these are gradually disappearing.
Among the old-time industries, mention may also be cotton weaving, embroidery, oil extraction, silk-weaving, bamboo articles, lac, sugar, belna and Kharas, carpets, etc. Spinning and weaving were also important industries. Families of julahas “(weavers) were found in nearly every village and a whole family worked together. Hand-spum yarn, or the coarse yarn of the Punjab mills, was also used for the weaving and the tools were extremely cheap. Cotton was also mused in the manufacture of garbi lois, the thread being of English make. These were made at Sujanpur, Diananagar and Pathankot, where these were known as jora.
At Dera Baba Nanak, about 100 families of Kashmiris, and others were engaged in weaving and embroidery work. A flourishing outpost of the Amritsar silk-weaving industry was situated at Batala. The different designs of azarbands or trouser-strings of this place were well known. The workers employed in the industry were mostly women, mainly of the kakkezai caste. Bamboo factories flourished in Pathankot, where there were six of these factories. Bamboos were brought from Kathuha (Jammu and Kashmir State) and Nurpur (Himachal Pradesh) as well as from the low hills and submountane area of Pathankot Tahsil and were put to various uses. These formed the poles of doolies, shafts of ekkas, supports for thatching, the frame work of lattices, lances for cavalry regiments, weapons for Chowkidar, etc. Batala Tahsil used to export 100 maunds of lac annually. A great deal of lac used to be collected during the months of January and February in the Berian Bagh near Dinanagar.
The only modern sugar factory in then Punjab Province was at Sujanpur. Attached to the factory, there was a work-shop for making soda-water machine, as well as plant for generating carbonic acid gas from gur and molasses, which were bought for the purpose.
Batala was noted for the manufacture of iron belna and kharas which was done with the aid of steam-power. Belna manufacture was obviously prospering and was the most thriving industries in Batala. One firm was also manufacturing rice-hullers and flour-mills. Carpet factories also existed in the district. There were some thathiars in the Batala town, who used to prepare brass and bronze utensils. People used to prepare gur and rab out of sugarcane in the villages to meet their local requirements. The teli community used to extract edible and non-edible oils from sarson, toria, alsi, etc., with the help of old type bullock driven khouls (presses). Stitching of garments, without sewing machines, used to be done with the old type small hand-driven machines.
The district exercised an attraction upon the supporters of sericulture as a cottage industry and various attempts were made during the British rule to encourage the systematic rearing of all silk-worm. A lengthy history of sericulture in the district is given at pages 130-38 of the Gazetter of the Gurdaspur District, 1891-92; pages 141-45 of the Gurdaspur District Gazetter, 1914; and also in Mr. Kailey’s Monograph on the Silk Industry of the Punjab, 1899.
In 1854, an advance was given to a resident of Pathankot for establishing a silk factory. About the same time, some persons for the last eight or ten years had raised silkworm at Sujanpur and obtained silk, disposing of it at Batala at the rate of Rs 11 a seer. Sericulture became quite popular round Nainakot in Tahsil Shakargarh (transferred to Pakistan in 1947), but it was found that the native rearers habitually endeavoured to rear a much larger number of silkworms then they could either house or feed. The result was, of course, deterioration in quality. In 1873, Mr. F. Halsey commended rearing operations on an extensive scale at Sujanpur and at his suggestion, local Government sanctioned the grant of Rs 1,000 in prizes from the Gurdaspur District Funds for the best cocoons of local production. From this originated a series of annual exhibitions, the first of which was held at Gurdaspur in 1876. There were exhibitions at Gurdaspur in 1877 and 1878 but not in 1879 which year was marked by the death of F. Halsey, who had not been the chief mover in the Gurdaspur exhibitions. He had also given a large number of prizes at the exhibitions, and had further encouraged the cause of silk culture by large donations of young plants of the Chinese mulberry. His filature was brought for ₤ 600 by an agent sent out by Messers Lister and Co.- Silk Spinners of Manningham, Yorkshire (U.K) – who announced their intention at attempting silk-culture on a large-scale in the Kangra District (Himachal Pradesh). The firm was, after some negotiations, given a lease of the mulberry trees on the Gurdaspur – Amritsar Road. The fourth exhibition was held at Gurdaspur in 1880 and fifth at Madhopur in 1881; in subsequently years one was held annually at Pathankot up to 1890 when these exhibitions were discontinued owing mainly to the disappearing nature of the exhibits and malpractices on the part of the exhibitors.
Messrs Lister & Co. maintained their filature in the Government Workshops at Madhopur from 1880 to 1892. The best appliances were imported from France and the firm arranged for supplies of disease-free seed to sent annually from the same country; this was distributed to native growers who reared the worms in their own houses and brought the cocoons to the filature. An attempt was made to keep the seed obtained from the moths through the hot weather in a house rented on the top of Bakrota in Dalhousie (Himachal Pradesh). The outturn of cocoons returned by the rearers, however, grew less and less; the fatal disease of pebrine continued to spread. Messrs Lister considered that the Irrigation Department was unfairly raising the rent of the old Workshop at Madhopur against them, and finally, after continued disappointment, they transferred the whole filature to Dehra Dun (U.P)
After 1892, sericulture continued to be carried on in a desultory way at various centres such as Sujanpur and Narot Jaimalsingh in the Pathankot Tahsil, Bahrampur in the Gurdaspur Tahsil and round Nainakot in Shakargarh Tahsil (Pakistan) until, in 1909, Government encourage by the success of the industry in Kashmir once more attempted to revive it in the Gurdaspur District. The experiment tool the old form of distribution of disease-free-seed, obtained from Sericulture Department Kashmir, but it was very successful. For a few years from 1910 onwards, a resident of Amritsar endeavored to raise silk in the district for his filature at Amritsar, but his enterprise also did not with success.
The industry of stamping patterns on cloth, which used to be carried onto a considerable extent in Bahrampur, practically disappeared about the end of the nineteenth century. The profits being very small, the population of Chimbas almost died out.
As pointed out by Latifi in The Industrial Punjab, the important of synthetic dyes drove the indigenous dye-stuff almost entirely out of the Indian market. Even the cultivation of kasumbha (safflower), which used to be a good deal grown in Chak Andhar, had almost died out early in the twentieth century. The Dhariwal Mills employed a dyeing expert and had a very well – equipped dyeing department. Elsewhere the rangrez was found scattered about in various parts of the district, but doing an insignificant trade.
Dinanagar used to be a centre for the manufacture of country harnes and saddlery, but the products of Kanpur and Meerut (U.P) had superseded the local industry early in the present century. A few kathis, a native form of saddle, continued being manufactured by two or three mochis (cobblers) in Dinanagar and sold locally; there was no export. A few mochis in Pathankot and Gurdaspur mage boos in the European style for native wear, but elsewhere in the district only that native shoe was made.
Early in the present century, certain branches of the fibre industry were monopolised almost entirely by members of particular caste. Thus munj twine was made by the Hindu Labanas and Jat zamindars, and the long narrow strips of sack-cloth, or pattis, and bags, or thalis, by the Musalman telis, while the grain-sieves called chhaj, were the specialty of Changars. Munj-matting was principally manufactured by boatmen, and tappars of rat or sack-cloth by a clan which called themselves Turks of Gharota Kalan in the Pathankot Tahsil and Dhamrai in the Gurdaspur Tahsil. Ghatrota Kalan was a well – known centre of the fibre industry and was, in 1913, said to send out every year Rs 20,000 worth of twine, and Rs 1,000 worth of an inferior grade of sack-cloth, made of san, brought from the Nurpur Tahsil of the Kangra District (Himachal Pradesh). Shahpur Kandi also obtained the raw material from the surrounding villages and yearly exported Rs 5,000 of twine, crods and ropes, packing cloth, drying-sheets fro grain, flooring and roofing pieces and nets for holding chopped straw are all manufactured from munj. A long fibre suitable for rope making is derived from a shrub called sankukra (Hibiscus cannabinus). The kana reed yielding another useful fibre. The dib bulrush can be applied to the manufactured of safs or coarse kinds of matting. Date-plam leaf is woven into matting and the branches of dhamman (Grewia Elastica), a characteristic tree of the Outer Himalayas, yield a rope after the sticks have been well soaked in water.
Khas, the root panni (Vetivera zizanioides), obtained from the chambh, used to be exported from Kahnuwan to Amritsar, its oil being extracted as a perfume and for a flavoring sherbet; but export ceased early in the present in the present century.
With the passage of time, develoment means of communications, construction of roads and provision of rail links, the district has become an important engineering centre. The general awakening among the masses and the introduction of mechanical and electric power in recent times have also led to the rise of new industries. The present century has, thus, witnessed a lamentable regression from old time industries to engineering industries in the livelihood pattern of the district.
The engineering industry of Batala has been known all over the country. Prior to the partition of the country in 1947, this industry was mostly in the hands of the Muslims. The void created by their mass migration to Pakistan in 1947 was, however, soon filled. Besides agricultural implements, which is the speciality of this district, the manufacture of various types of machine tools such as lathe machines, planners, shappers, drills, power presses, hand presses, wood working machinery, etc. is also equally important industry, mainly centralized in Batala. Cast iron castings of numerous types are also manufactures in the foundries being run with the aid of copulas and pit-furances. The woolen textiles of Dhariwal Mills have a good name throughout the country and abroad. The other industries being run are cycle parts, pattern making, conduit pipes, nut and bolts, rubber goods, sports gods, etc. Rice husking and woodworking industries also form an important part of the industrial set-up of the district. There were more than 1,700 industrial units, inclusive of family concerns, representing different industries in the district. During 1954-55, these afforded employment to 8,946 workers and produced goods estimated at Rs 52,16,000.
Being a border district with the ever existing danger of outbreak of hostilities with Pakistan, capital investment here has been somewhat shy. Naturally, economic activity, particularly in the field in the field of industry, has remained somewhat erratic. No new large-scale industrial unit has been set up. Instead, there has been flight of capital from places like Batala to safer places like Faridabad, Sonepet, etc. in Haryana.
To meet the credit needs of the industry, the State Government has set up the Punjab Financial Corporation, which advances loans up to Rs 10 lakhs to private limited companies and up to Rs 20 lakhs to the public limited companies and co-operative societies. Smaller loans are also advanced by the State Industries Development under the Punjab State Aid to Industries Act, 1935, for the development of industries. In line with the policy adopted throughout the country, credit and other financial assistance are also available to small units through the State agencies of the All-India Khadi and Village Industries Board. Besides, nationalised commercial banks also advance working capital and other loans to the industry. The Punjab Financial Corporation provides finance to the medium and large-scale industrial units, whereas the commercial banks offer loans to the small-scale units for short period.
The State Industries Department has several attractive schemes to encourage industrialists in setting up new industrial units. These include concessions regarding land, finance and capital, power, taxation, and in procuring of raw material, etc. The following table shows the amount of financial assistance granted in the district, during 1967-68 to 1971-72 :-
Financial Assistance Granted by
Government for Development of
Industries in Gurdaspur District,
1967-68 to 1971-72
|
Year |
Loans |
Grants in Aid and Subsidy |
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No. of units |
Amount (Rs) |
No. of units |
Amount (Rs) |
||
|
1967-68 |
.. |
188 |
7,07,291 |
4 |
3,195 |
|
1968-69 |
.. |
118 |
4,80,700 |
4 |
1,700 |
|
1969-70 |
.. |
136 |
4,81,800 |
49 |
53,275 |
|
1970-71 |
.. |
109 |
3,50,000 |
4 |
5,275 |
|
1971-72 |
.. |
239 |
14,85,000 |
- |
- |
(Statistical Abstracts of
Punjab, 1969 to 1972)
Other measures taken for the promotion of industries in the district are discussed below :
(1)Supply of Machinery of Hire-Purchase Basis. – Evolved by the Government of India, this scheme is to assist the educated unemployed persons, particularly the engineers, with the supply of machines on hire-purchase basis. The scheme has been entrusted by the State Government to the Punjab State Small Industries Corporation. Machines are supplied to educated unemployed persons who have passed at least basic school-leaving examination and to those who have undergone courses in the Industrial Training Institutes. Those with a degree or diploma in engineering and having done entrepreneurship training courses recognised by the Punjab Government or who have undergone the courses of the Industrial Training Institutes with some additional experience in industry are given preference. No single small-scale unit is supplied machines of the value of less than Rs 500 and more than Rs one lakh at a time. The cost of the machinery is recoverable in convenient installments spread over a number of years.
(2) Supply of Raw Materials. – To supply various services and facilities to the industry, especially to the small-scale units, the State Government set up the Punjab State Small Industries Corporation in 1962. The Corporation procures and distributes essential raw materials and organises sale and marketing of industrial products. Besides, the industrial units obtain supplies of iron and steel from the stockyard opened by M/S Tata Iron and Steel Company, and M/S Hindustan Steel Ltd. Calcutta, at Jullundur, which is much nearer to the industry of this district.
(3) Marketing Assistance. – Besides providing raw materials, machines and other equipment, the Punjab State Small Industries Corporation also implements other useful schemes like provision of setting up of factories, registration of small-scale units, marketing of the products of the small-scale industries, and sale of handicrafts and products of cottage and small-scale industries through its own emporia set up at various places. The State Government also organises industrial exhibition in and outside the State, in which the products of cottage and small-scale industries are displayed to the public.
(4) Quality Marking Scheme. – The introduction of quality marking is another measure taken by the State Government for the development and growth of small-scale industries. It provides testing and inspection facilities to the manufacturers and is a source of guidance to them in improving the quality of manufactured goods and in standardization. Qualified and experienced technical staff is employed, which assist the manufacturers in introducing modern techniques of production.
The following Quality Marking Centre has been set up at Batala under the Quality Marking Scheme :-
Government Quality Marking Centre for Engineering
Goods, Batala
A scheme was undertaken for quality marking of agricultural implements and machine tools by the State Government for which a well-equipped Quality Marking Centre for Engineering Goods was established in 1956 in the premises of the industrial estate at Batala. Nominal fee is charged for the service rendered by the centre to the industrialists. There are 42 units registered with this centre under the different schemes. Technical guidance and testing facilities are also provided to these units.
The progress of work of the centre, from the inception of the quality marking scheme in 1956-57 to 1971-72, is shown in the following table :-
|
Year |
|
Total No. of parties registered under the Quality Marking Scheme from its inception in 1956-57 to date |
No. of tests performed |
Value of goods quality marked (Rs in lakhs) |
Value of goods tested for export (Rs in lakhs) |
|
1956-57 to 1969-70 |
.. .. |
37 |
3,726 |
34,50,698 |
90,175 |
|
1970-71 |
.. |
40 |
794 |
16,94,532 |
4,860 |
|
1971-72 |
.. |
42 |
1,278 |
25,09,400 |
- |
(Source: quality, Marking Centre for Engineering Goods, Batala)
(5) Common Facility Service Development Scheme.- These provide facilities to small scale manufactures in heat treatment, electroplating, wood seasoning, electronic components and testing facilities for radios, electrical appliances and engineering parts. The following centres provides technical advice, assistants and common facility services, various industries:-
Industrial Develoment Centre Batala
With a view to improve the quality of the semi-finished products and achieve certain mechanical properties in steel, heat treatment and sand blasting processing services to engineering units of Batala and the surrounding areas, the Industrial Development Centre was set up at Batala by the sate Government in January 1969. The centre provides technical know-how to the industrialists in the standardization of their products. The amount realised by the centre as service charges during 1969-70 to 1971-72, was as under:
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Year |
|
Processing Charges Realised (Rs) |
|
1969-70 |
.. |
3,294 |
|
1970-71 |
.. |
14,150 |
|
1971-72 |
.. |
31,940 |
(Source.
Industrial Develoment Centre Batala)
(6) Other Organisation for the Development of Industries.- Beside, the above mentioned common facility/development centre, there exist the following organisations for the promotions of Industries:-
(i) The Punjab State Small Industries Corporation Ltd., Chandigarh.- With a view to aid, council, assist, finance, protect and promote the interest of small-scale industries in the State The Punjab State Small Industries Corporation was set up as a plan scheme during the Third Five-Years Plan, 1961-66, and it stared functioning at Chandigarh from October 1962. The main function of the Corporation comprise procurement, storage and distribution of all categories of industrial raw materials whether imported or indigenous, wiz, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, coal, molasses, yarn, oil, dyes, leather, timber, chemicals, etc. The raw materials are distributed to those industrial units whose names are recommended by the Director of Industries, Punjab, Chandigarh, through its offices opened in various towns. The corporation office was established at Batala in 1962. During 1971-72 it distributed raw materials worth Rs. 1,72,50,000. The corporation also gives facilities of purchasing machinery on higher purchase basis to the small scale industries. Besides, it undertakes the sales of handicrafts and products of cottage and small scale industries through its own emporia setup at various places.
(ii) The Punjab State Small Industries Corporation Ltd., Chandigarh.- To cover the gap in terms of entrepreneurial financial and organisational resources, the State Government set up the Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation in 1966 as a wholly State-owned undertaking. It performs the role of an entrepreneur and assists in the setting up of medium and large-scale units, manufacturing sophisticated products and involving latest technology. As a matter of policy, the corporation implements projects in the joint sector through public limited companies. The corporation invests to the extent of 26 per cent in the equity companies. The corporation invests to the extent of 26 per cent and the rest is made available for public subscription. The facilities of financial assistance from National Finance Corporation are being availed of in form of term loan and underwriting of capital.
(iii) Small Industries Service Institute, Batala.– An extension centre for the service of the small industries was opened by the Government of India in 1957 at Batala. It renders free technical advice to the small entrepreneurs and undertakes jobs on nominal charges. A part from this, demonstration parties have also been set up. The main function of these parties is to give guidance to village artisans to enable them to set up their own small industries in the rural area. The centre is equipped with modern machinery and has been very helpful in extending technical guidance to the industries.
(iv) National Metallurgical Laboratory, Batala. – The small-scale foundries producing non-ferrous, iron, steel and malleable iron castings generally do not have adequate facilities for testing and improvement of their products. As a result, these are often handicapped in producing quality castings to compete in the market. The Government of India have, therefore, set up National Metallurgical Laboratories at different places in the country where small-scale foundries are concentrated, to enable them to produce quality castings with the resources at their command. One such laboratory was set up at Batala in 1964 in collaboration with the Department of Industries, Punjab. It has taken up an active programme to look into the difficulties of the small-scale foundries by way of periodical visits, advising on the spot regarding operational problems, testing their raw materials and suggesting methods of improvement for production of quality castings.
The laboratory is equipped with adequate facilities for testing of foundry sands and bonding clays used by the local foundries and also of nearby available deposits, so as to find out their suitability for specific casting purpose. It is also equiped to undertake chemical analysis of both ferrous and non-ferrous metals, moulding sands and other foundry raw materials.
Since the setting up of this laboratory, good many all round developments have been made by the foundry industry of this region.
(v) Industrial Training Institutes. - There are four Government Industrial Training Institutes in the district, functioning at Batala, Qadian, Gurdaspur and Pathankot. These impart training in different trades/jobs to cater to the needs of artisans required by the foundry and engineering units. There is also a Government Polytechnic functioning at Batala which provides training facilities to the young talents in the various trades.
(vi) Rural Industrial Development Centres. –With a view to assist the artisans and to provide common service facilities to small units in the rural area, two rural industrial development centres are functioning at Dhariwal and Ghuman. Besides providing these facilities, the centres also meet the demands of various items of leather goods, wooden furniture, agricultural implements, etc.
In a developing economy like that of India, industrial training has a vital role to play, especially in the context of our urgent need for accelerated industrial growth. It ensures speedy flow to technicians to man the ever-growing industrial activities. With the rapid industrialisation, training of young men and women has helped to relieve unemployment, to a considerable extent. The Department of Industrial Training, Punjab, is engaged in the implementation of the various schemes concerning craftsmen training apprenticeship training, and special training in Industrial Schools for Boys and Girls and Special Trade Institutes.
Craftsmen training was originally started in the pre-independence period as an emergency measure to produce suitable technicians required by the Defence Services and Defence Industries. After the World War II (1939-45), the scheme was continued in order to rehabilitate ex-servicemen after imparting them technical training. On the recommendations of Shiva Rao Committee, set up by the Government of India, the scheme was brought on permanent footing in 1956 because it was felt that, wihtout producing technicians at home, industrial set-up by the country could not be widened. The Government of India decided in November 1966, to share the expenditure with the State Government on 60 : 40 basis. From April 1, 1969 the entire expenditure is being met by the State Government.
The industrial training programme in the Punjab received an impetus under the Government of India’s programme. The Department of Industrial Training, Punjab, imparts industrial, technical and vocational training to boys and girls through its various industrial training schools/institutes/centres.
There are four Government Industrial Training Institute in the district at Batala, Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Qadian, where training in engineering and non-engineering trades is given to the students. Besides, there are three Government Industrial Training Schools for Girls at Gurdaspur, Pathankot and Fatehgarh Churian, which impart technical training to the deserted widows in tailoring, cutting, needle work and embroidery. Deserving candidates are also awarded stipends. There are also two private recognised Industrial Schools for Girls at Batala and Qadian, which impart training in cutting, tailoring, embroidery and needle work. Apart from these, there is a Government Industrial Training Centre for Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes at Fatehgarh Churian for imparting industrial training to students belonging to Scheduled Castes and Backward Classes.1
The detailed particulars regarding the different Government Industrial Training Institutes are given in the following statement :-
1. Previously this centre was located at Dinanagar, from where it
was shifted to Fatehgarh Churian on November 1,1966.