Karnataka government is proposing to the center to have one Pharmaceutical Industrial Park and one Plastics-Polymer Industrial Park in Canara Industrial Area, Bantwal. But no further news on where the land is alloted for CIPET & Hydrocarbon Skill Development Center. And no further news on proposed Coconut Park.
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Along with Pharma Park the government could also be planning for clinical research facilties. But where? Sequent is having some research facility in Mangalore in itst campus. Syngene is also planning.
Mangalore also needs a Electronic System Design & Manufacturing cluster focusing specifically on Medical Devices domain. There was some plan for developing Belapu as ESDM cluster.
Since Mangalore MP has identified some other location for Ultra Mega Power Plant government land available in Niddodi can even be considered for these industries. Even UMPP itself is now doubtful as I said earlier.
To develop as a strong Medical or Healthcare or Wellness City as mentioned in my previous post Mangalore should also have very good R&D cum innovation facility in medical domain. I have listed a few small research institutes in my previous post on this subject. One more is researches done by Mangalore University in collaboration with BARC in Nuclear domain applied to healthcare field -
CARRT,
Biosciences. A few companies are there working on
Clinical Research -
MCRF,
Ecron Acunova,
MCCR. There are a few others like
Spandana Metabolics,
i-POINT,
Stempeutics-Manipal. But all these researches are happening in a relatively small scale. There is also a clincial sciences teaching institute called
EICS in Mangalore.
Kunjathabail Wellness & Knowledge Smart City should have dedicated institutes which teach Basic & Applied Research or
Pre-clinical Research,
Clinical Research,
Translational research. Specialized intitutes teaching
Biomedical Electronics & Instrumentation,
Medical Robotics &
Artifical Intelligence,
Nanomedicine,
Medical Genetics,
Cellular &
Molecular biology,
Immunology,
Pharmacology (A full list is available in
Medical Research) and other disciplines like
Ayurveda,
Naturopathy, etc. In other words it should be a fullfledged Knowledge City on Medical domain. (Mangalore already has a strong teaching base in nursing, physiotherapy, etc.) And it should have Research facilities & 'Startup Village' supporting basic & applied researches including
Pre-clinical Research,
Clinical Research,
Translational research. Interdisciplinary teams should be encouraged. For example
3D-printing or
Tissue Engineering or Medical Instrumentation fields need doctors, engineers, chemists, physicists, biologists, etc. Interdisciplinary research should happen in non-allopathic medicines also.
In this regard if Mangalore can get a institute like
AIIMS it would be great.
Similarly 'Financial Smart City' can have institutes teaching finance and startups working on e-finance services along with financial institutes like banks, insurance companies, brokarages,
exchanges and other
investment management companies. If theme is 'Finance & Commerce Smart City' then it can also have institutes teaching commerce subjects and startups in e-commerce fields. By clubbing education and research with it we are developing it as a Knowledge City in Finance & Commerce domain. But plan for 'Finance & Tech City' seems to be only for financial ITES & IT like
GIFT. Alternatively teaching & research institutes can be setup in Kunjatahbail Knowledge City itself for all domains like Medical, Finance, Commerce if space is available. Though may not add much value directly 'Tourism Smart City' can also have similar institutional facilities at same site or elsewhere in the region.