Siraha, August 6 : Over a thousand new industries were registered in the Siraha district in the last fiscal year despite the imposition of a four-month long nationwide lockdown (from March 24 to July 21) against the coronavirus pandemic.
The Cottage and Small Industries Office, Lahan said that during 2019-20, a total of 1,147 new industries- 530 under the service category, 490 under the agriculture and wildlife category and 127 under the production category- were registered in the district. Office chief Dipendra Kumar Yadav said the Office collected revenue of Rs 4.29 million by giving permission to run such a number of new industries. It may be noted that a total of 1,499 industries had been registered previous fiscal year.
Of them, 191 were for production group, 740 for service-oriented group and 558 towards agriculture and wildlife industries. According to Yadav, the registration for new small and cottage business is rising in the district with banks and financial institutions becoming liberal to provide loans for the operation of business. RSS
