After the Haryana government’s decision to implement a 75 per cent quota for locals in jobs in Harayana, a number of companies are mulling over the decision to move to Noida. As per a report by Amar Ujala, the officials of the IMT industrial association are visiting Noida to look for opportunities to set up factories in the city.
The industrialists based in Gurugram argued that more than 80 per cent of the workers in the automobile industry and textile industry are from Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and Madhya Pradesh and the newly implemented law makes these workers illegal.
Given the fact that the eastern states send a large number of skilled and cheap labour, running factories without them would be impossible. Therefore, they are exploring the opportunities in the city. The industrialists argued that Noida would very soon have an airport in Jewar and it is also connected to freight corridor, therefore, the commuting of workers as well as goods would be easy.
Gurugram and Manesar had advantages over Delhi and other neighboring cities and this is the reason that a millennium city was built out of scratch within three decades, but today, Noida has very clear advantages over the former.
For decades, Noida has been seen as a poorer cousin of Gurugram. But, in the last few years, many high-profile corporates have started moving in to the city. The Yogi government has focused on improving the civic infrastructure of the city and pitched it to domestic and foreign investors. In the last few months, many companies -ranging from data centers to shoe factories- have started setting up offices in the city.
Gurugram is a city that was developed on foreign capital and human resources from Delhi and other Indian cities. So, except for the land, the people of Haryana, as well as the governments of Haryana, have contributed very little to the making of the city.
It would not take more than a year for all the people and the companies who built Gurugram to shift to Noida. The people who built the city were looking for close proximity to Delhi and the IGI airport, cheap land, and a supportive government. Today, Noida outperforms Gurugram on all three indicators, therefore, it is emerging as a better alternative.
According to the General Secretary of IMT industrial association Manoj Tyagi, a group of industrialists has already visited Noida and they have also sent a letter for meeting with UP CM Yogi Adityanath, and the shifting process would start after the meeting. It looks like Noida is the clear winner from Haryana’s parochial law.