Business in Jaipur

Jaipur from a business point of view

Indicators of Human Resources Population persons 52,52,388 Density of population persons per sq. kms. 471 Literacy per cent 70.63 Total working population per cent 29.17 Percentage distribution of work force Cultivators per cent 40.05 Agricultural labourers per cent 5.66 Household industry manufacturing,       processing servicing and repairs percent 14.71 Production: 1999-00 (Tonnes) Lime stone 55,000 Soap stone 38,356 Kaoline 12,707 Felspar 8,245 Stealite 8,291 Iron ore 8,000 Quartz 1,054 Calcite 5 Infrastructure Electricity Jaipur district is receiving the hydro-electric power, supplied by the Chambal Hydel System. Out of total 2,131 villages in the district, 2,131 were electrified as on March 2000. Water The major rivers passing through the Jaipur district are Banas and Banganga. The ground water resources to the extent of about 28.65 million cubic meter are available in the district. Road Transport Jaipur city is the capital of the state and is centrally located. The National Highway No.8 links Delhi to Ahmedabad and No.11, linking Bikaner to Agra passes through Jaipur district to a total length of 366 kms. The total length of different types of roads in the district was about 4,102 kms as of March 2000. Rail Transport Jaipur district is connected with meter gauge rail route with Sri Ganganagar, Ajmer, Udaipur and Sirohi. Jaipur is also connected with major centres of neighbouring states such as Agra (Uttar Pradesh), Ahmedabad (Gujarat) and Delhi. Recently, Jaipur has got connected in broad gauge, enabling direct connections to cities like Sawai Madhopur, Kota, Jodhpur, Bikaner, Bombay, Howrah, Lucknow, Kanpur & Delhi. Air Transport Jaipur is connected by air with Jodhpur, Udaipur, Aurangabad, Delhi, Bombay and outside the country with Paris, London & Dublin. Communication Facilities (Nos) Post offices 599 Telegraph offices 143 Telecom centres 9 PCOs 859 Telephone exchanges 150  Banking Offices, Deposits and Credit as on Dec 2003   Offices Deposits Credit   (No.) (Rs.Lakh) (Rs.Lakh) All Scheduled Commercial Banks 408 942400 766700   SBI and its Associates 109 324900 178800   Nationalised Banks 166 365400 446500   Foreign Banks 3 11000 5900   Regional Rural Banks 74 29500 7700   Other Scheduled Commercial Banks 56 211600 128000 Educational Facilities/Institutions (Nos) Universities 1 Colleges 45 Agricultural colleges 2 Engineering colleges 1 Polytechnical colleges 2 Medical colleges 1 Secondary & higher secondary schools 554 Higher primary schools 1,460 Primary schools 2,905 ITIs 6 Agricultural research centre 2 Industrial Scenario No. of large & medium scale running units: 48 No. of small scale units: 19,544 No. of industrial areas: 19 Bagru, Bassi, Bais Godam, Bindyaka, Dudu, Hirawala, Jetpura, Jhotwara, Kaladera, Kanakpura, Kartarpura, Malviya Nagar, Phulera, Renwal, Sanganeer, Shahpura, Sitapura, Sudarshanpur and Vishwakarma. Main Industrial Products Acetylene gas, ACSR conductors, ball bearings, bottling of LPG, ceramics, pottery, cold roll strips, common salt, corrugated boxes, deoiled cakes, durries, dyeing and printing, edible oil, electronic items, engraving on brass items, ferrous and non-ferrous castings, gems and jewellary, general engineering and manufacturing, granite slabs and tiles, hand made paper, handicraft items, halogen auto bulbs, hawai chappals, household electrical appliances, HT steel strips, lodized salt, lamps, laminated springs for railways, marble statues, marble tiles & slabs, moulded plastic components for electronics, perfumes, pigment colours, plastic containers, P.P. multifilament yarn, PVC cables, PVC doors, PVC footwear, canvas shoes, nitro chloro benzene, oxygen gas, port land cement, readymade garments, re-roller products, steel furniture, steel ingots, stone grits, synthetic leather, synthetic suiting & shirtings, tablets and capsules, two way radio and line, washing so ap, wheat maida, suji, atta, woollen carpet, re fined vegetable oil and vanaspati ghee. Export items Brass and lacquer work, enamel work, gems and jewellery, granite tiles, handloom, marble statues, printed cloth and textiles, readymade garments and woollen carpets.