Bhiwadi has today emerged as a bustling industrial township. Around 20,000-30,000 persons commute from Delhi, Gurgaon and Rewari to Bhiwadi on a regular basis to work in around 2,500 small, medium and large industries, which include MNC units that manufacture various types of products like steel, furnace, electronics, engineering, textiles, pharmaceuticals, cables, rolling mills, food processing, herbal care etc.

The Rajasthan State Industrial Development and Investment Corporation (RIICO) have envisaged for Bhiwadi a growth similar to that in Pune and Hosur. Good roads, developed plots, continuous power supply, high-speed data transferring facility and common testing facility are already developed in the industrial area of this town.

RIICO has envisaged developing a dry port that facilitates various value-added services. The facilities planned include container sheds, transit yards, warehouses, railway siding and truck parking, apart from excise payment and customs clearance facilities. RIICO is acquiring more land in Bhiwadi for expansion of the auto complex, which will have an exclusive auto component unit and engineering zone with a tool room and training centre. The automobile hub would generate new investment amounting to Rs.3,000 crores in the Bhiwadi region, creating employment potential for over 7,000 persons. As Rajasthan has the highest livestock population and tremendous bio-diversity, the state has good potential in animal husbandry, genetic engineering and biotechnology. To attract investment in biotechnology sector, RIICO is considering developing state-of-the-art biotech parks. A friendly-investor biotech policy is also on the anvil, under which many lucrative incentives will be provided to the biotech investors.

Some of the other projects that are to be taken up for development by PDCOR Limited, a joint venture company promoted by Government of Rajasthan and Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services Limited (IL&FS), include an International Trade Centre and Medicity. An export-processing zone by DLF Group and a SEZ by Ansal API are also under implementation.

Future prospects

“The town infrastructure would get a further boost with planned and aggressive initiatives by the government”, R.P. Singh, Executive Engineer with Urban Improvement Trust (UTI), Alwar and Bhiwadi, remarks. He is positive about the future of Bhiwadi. “The proposal for railway station and bypass has been sanctioned. Within 2-4 years, Bhiwadi will be connected to Rewari by a broad gauge rail link and within two years a bypass will connect NH8 and

. This year the state government has set aside Rs 4 crores to develop a commercial/office complex.”

A focal point between all-important existing and upcoming industrial towns of Manesar, Dharuhera, Bawal, Chaupanki and Neemrana, Bhiwadi is on fast track offering great investment opportunities.

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