• The Department of Industries and Mines, Government of Gujarat vide their GR No. NMK-102014-526515-CH dated 24th October,2017 has announced a new subsidy scheme for purchase of solar pump by salt producers. On purchase of solar pump system by salt producers, subsidy @ 80% of the cost of the solar pump is being provided to salt producers. Since a solar pump system costs in the range of ‘ 1.50 to 2.50 Lakhs, salt workers are not rich enough to .. spend such amount upfront and hence they take recourse to private lending which is costing very high.

  • The Joint    Commissioner     of    Industries         (Salt/Textile), Government of Gujarat has informed that the department is in the process of devising a mechanism of forwarding loan applications for purchase of solar pump by salt producers from district industrial centers (DICS) TO BANK.