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private and foreign investments. As per warehousing facilities across the region.
Knight Frank’s Warehousing Market The projects to be executed under the
Report, Indian Logistics’ cost percentage MoU are expected to bring indirect
of its GDP is nearly double the logistics investments of approximately Rs 2500
cost of developed countries. crores to the state.”
The lack of an efficient intermodal Speaking on the new warehousing
and multimodal transport systems could policy that is on the anvil, Ronak Shah
be considered a major attributor to the added, “The idea is to curtail pollution
same. Therefore many industry players and traffic congestion in major cities.
believe that the Indian government is The modern-day warehouses will build
working extensively to enhance the cold-storage chains which will be
country’s infrastructure, as it aims to able to store all kinds of cargo. These
reduce the logistics cost to less than 10% amenities are estimated to be built in the
of its GDP, through various policy and Gubba has already outskirts of the cities so that large trucks
project implementations. finalised its investments transporting the cargo need not enter the
“Lack of efficient intermodal and for Automated Storage city to unload their goods.”
multimodal transport system could and Retrieval Systems • Need For Skilled Workforce
be considered a major attributor in its food and pharma Highlighting the need for a skilled
to the same. Some of the notable workforce in a modern warehouse,
mentions are the National Logistics facilities. By December Sanjay Tiwari, Co-founder of 21CC
Parks Policy, the inclusion of the 2022, our warehouses Education told ITLN “Specific product
logistics sector under Infrastructure will be more than semi- knowledge in warehousing and logistics
by the Government, Bharatmala and automated. is of the essence for employees. A box is
the Sagarmala Project, Gati Shakti- Gubba Kiran not a box, i.e. what's inside matters as
National Modal Plan for Multi-modal Gubba Pharma Cold Storage different products have different handling
Connectivity, Delhi- Mumbai Express requirements, scanning requirements,
Highway, Dedicated Freight Corridors, packaging requirements, etc. With the
Sanctioning of REITs, Establishment is slated to work well for the sector. changing and more stringent FSSAI and
of Goods and Services Tax and Make Sundaresan Vaidyanathan told ITLN, FDA requirements, it makes it even more
in India Initiative to name a few. The “New programmes like Bharatmala important that employees understand
creation and development of industrial and Sagarmala are some of the classic what the composition of products is,
corridors, port and road infrastructure, examples of the government spending what their sensitivity to temperature
multi-modal connectivity, support on infrastructure projects. Government is, etc. The industry is scaling up and
through various initiatives, and is also planning to introduce a specialising at the same time, which is
digitalisation are expected to attract warehousing policy to help ease quite a challenge!”
better investments, improved quality transportation and logistics costs. It Tiwari added, “We can help to
of assets, cold storage, connectivity aims to lay the roadmap for developing close the skill gap by working directly
among major cities and industrial exclusive warehousing zones through with warehouse employees to skill
corridors, reducing logistic costs, public-private partnerships.” them by using our digital platform.
time to travel, improved last-mile Vaidyanathan added, “We at Welspun 21CC Education, in a tie-up with
connectivity thereby making Indian One have recently signed an MoU with IndoSpace, has signed up more than
business more attractive and the Haryana Government with a total thirty warehousing and distribution
competitive. The impact would not only investment of Rs 1500 crores in the companies in Chennai, Bangalore,
benefit a single or related sector but state and aim to explore the available Mumbai, and Haryana, with a total of
would also affect and benefit multiple government land parcel for building 7,500 employees. The 21CC content is
sectors,” Verma tells ITLN. Grade A warehousing facilities across being used to educate the frontline /
Apart from systematic reforms key warehousing micro-markets. Last blue-collar workers on the basics of
like implementation of the GST and December, we acquired 40 acres of land logistics. We are helping DB Schenker
accordance of infrastructure status located on the Malur-Hosur road to set do the on-boarding of all their new
to the sector, it is going through up a large-scale warehousing facility. This employees, using our app and content
many positive changes. On the policy is the first of six projects as part of the as well as DB Schenker's “day zero”
front, there have been multiple MoU that we signed with the Government module called ‘Samvardhan’.” 
reforms aimed toward infrastructure of Tamil Nadu's nodal agency to set up
development by the government, which

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