Bottled water plant yet to go full throttle
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3 months after inception, two production lines at Aruvikkara unit still inoperational
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3 months after inception, two production lines at Aruvikkara unit still inoperational More than three months after launching operations, the bottled water plant at Aruvikkara is yet to see production shift gears to full capacity.
Production at the ₹16-crore facility has not moved beyond the 20-litre jars which had hit the market following the inauguration by Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in January this year. Of the three production lines, only one is operational.
The Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure Development Corporation (KIIDC), which runs the plant, had announced plans to bring out one and two litres, and 750 ml and 500 ml bottles under the KIIDC’s ‘Hilly Aqua’ brand. The KIIDC has been marketing the 20-litre jars through the Kudumbashree, but the market has been generally sluggish due to the COVI
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Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan - THE HINDU×
Hilly Aqua was first produced from a plant in Thodupuzha, says State’s CM Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Saturday inaugurated the much-awaited bottled water plant at Aruvikkara near here, the second such manufacturing unit to be set up in the public sector in the state. The plant, envisaged to make the State government s packaged drinking water brand Hilly Aqua , was set up by the Kerala Irrigation Infrastructure Development Corporation (KIDC). Launching the plant via video conferencing, the Chief Minister said the State government was committed to provide drinking water at an affordable rate and that it would increase the production and supply of quality bottled water from the plant as demand increases.