After the formation of Maharashtra State on May 1, 1960, the Government created "Board of Industrial Development" (BID) on October 1, 1960 which passed the "Maharashtra Industrial Act", under which Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) was formed as a separate corporation on August 1, 1962.

Objective

• To achieve balanced industrial development of Maharashtra with an emphasis on developing the underdeveloped parts of the State
• Infrastructural development of each and every district of Maharashtra and
• Facilitate entrepreneurs in setting up industries at various locations

Mandate
To promote and assist in the rapid and orderly establishment, growth and development of industries in the State of Maharashtra

Activities
The MIDC has been declared as an agent of the State Government for carrying out the activities within the framework of the MID Act and the MID Rules. These activities can be divided under following 3 broad categories.

• Acquisition and disposal of land
• Provision of infrastructure facilities
• Providing of services
  • Acquisition & Disposal of Land
    The land for industrial areas is acquired by the Government of Maharashtra under Chapter VI of the MID Act 1961 and handed over to the Corporation for further disposal. Likewise, wherever available, the Government land is also handed over to the Corporation as an industrial area. The Government pays for the compensation for the private land from its own fund. The Corporation in turn plans the area and disposes the land in suitable plots by leasing out for 95 years. For this purpose the Corporation recovers the premium lease money at different rates for different industrial areas. Also the Corporation constructs built-up accommodations like Sheds and Flatted units and sells them out to the prospective industrialists together with the land there on lease basis.
  • Provision of Infrastructure Facilities
    The Corporation is required to provide infrastructure facilities like Roads, Streetlight, Drainage, Water Supply schemes and Buildings for Common facilities like Post & Telegraphs, Canteen, Bank, and Telephone etc. The Corporation meets the expenditure on such works (facilities) generally from the premium lease money received by it from the allottees.
  • Providing of Services
    The Corporation provides the following services to the units in its industrial areas:
    • Assured Water Supply
    • Maintenance of Industrial Areas
    • Drainage (effluent disposal) and CETP Schemes
    • Fire Services
    • Other Services

Assured Water Supply
From among the various services provided by the Corporation, an assured pure water supply can be regarded as a unique specialty of the MIDC. The investment on the water supply scheme (Head works) made by MIDC as on 31st March, 2002 is over INR 1365.04 crore with installed capacity of water supply of 2045 MLD. The annual revenue from water is over Rs 375.96 crore.

Maintenance of Industrial Areas
This is a municipal function requiring the Corporation to maintain the Roads, Street lights, Fire stations (in few areas) during the transitory period up to handing over of the industrial area either to Government or other agency as the Government may decide. The MID Act, vide Section 56, provides for the exit policy after the purpose of industrial development as contemplated in the Act is fulfilled.

Drainage (effluent disposal) and CETP Schemes
The Corporation has Effluent Disposal (Drainage) schemes only in selected Industrial areas having chemical industries. Such schemes are designed to collect and discharge the treated effluent only. In such areas the Corporation recovers drainage cess to defray the expenditure on maintenance and to partially recover the capital cost. Also with a view to arrest pollution, the Corporation has started the operations like Hazardous waste Management and Common Effluent Plants on Joint venture basis with the help of local industries associations.

Fire Services
The fire services are called as the fourth line of National defense. The Govt. of India has nomenclature for the fire services as “Fire & Emergency Services” and designated as the first responders in case of any emergency. As per the National Disaster Management Act 2005, which is adopted by various states, the strengthening of fire services is under taken by many states so that they can respond to any Manmade or Natural Disaster. The main role of fire service is divided into two parts one is Fire Prevention and another is Fire Protection. The Fire Prevention is achieved by implementing fire prevention engineering at the planning stage of any building.

MIDC has taken a policy decision to provide full fledge fire stations in all its major industrial areas, areas having moderate or high potential fire risk and in special areas, and SEZ’s where foreign direct investment is parked. It is a part of basic infrastructure provided to that area and as per Section 21 of the “Maharashtra Fire Prevention and Life Safety Measures Act 2006” it is mandatory requirement on all Municipal Corporation, Municipal Councils & Special Planning Authorities.

MIDC is perhaps the only industrial development corporation that provides fire services to its industrial estates. These stations are well equipped with the modern technology based equipments. At present about 15 fire stations are operational, which are as follows:

• Tarapur, Thane, Konkan region
• Trans Thane Creek, Thane, Konkan region
• Additional Ambernath, Thane, Konkan region
• Roha, Raigad, Konkan region
• Mahad, Raigad, Konkan region
• Lote Parshuram, Ratnagiri, Konkan region
• Taloja, Raigad, Konkan region
• Sangli Miraj Kupwad, Sangali, Nasik region
• Chincholi, Sholapur, Nasik region
• Hinjewadi, Pune, Pune region
• Kurkumbah, Pune, Pune region
• Ranjagaon, Pune, Pune region
• Waluj, Aurangabad, Pune region

Butibori, Nagpur, Hingna, Nagpur, Nanded, Shendra, Chakan, Murbad and Sinnar five other fire station which shall be operational soon. The construction work for fire stations at Kagal-Hatkanangale near Kolahpur, Baramati and Ahmednagar has been intiated. MIDC’s fire department well equipped with 1 Airfield crash tender, 13 water tenders, 19 foam tenders, 9 ambulances, 13 jeeps, & 8 cars. The corporation has also purchased breathing apparatus sets & rescue tools for almost all fire stations. In addition to this MIDC has also purchased an air field crash tender for the Nanded airport for aircraft related emergency calls. MIDC Fire Service aims to achieve fire safety by way of implementation of its “Development Control Rules” (DC Rules) and “National Building Code of India-2005” (NBC-2005) & “Maharashtra Fire Prevention & Life safety Measure Act-2006 & Rules” and other relevant Acts, Codes and Standards. This helps MIDC to monitor that there is no compromise towards life safety and fire safety in its industrial areas which helps to ensure minimize the loss to precious human life and loss to the National property. The Fire department has also started online single window service through its portal which is helpful to plot holders to submit online applications for fire approvals. v. Other Services These include providing and maintaining Common Facility Centers (CFC) like P & T, Banks etc. Though the Corporation does not levy any specific cess for the purpose, the CFC buildings are subject to rentals. Such rental together with other miscellaneous income from the area covers the maintenance cost of such CFCs.

Hingna, Nagpur, Nanded, Shendra, Chakan, Murbad and Sinnar five other fire station which shall be operational soon. The construction work for fire stations at Kagal-Hatkanangale near Kolahpur, Baramati and Ahmednagar has been intiated.

MIDC’s fire department well equipped with 1 Airfield crash tender, 13 water tenders, 19 foam tenders, 9 ambulances, 13 jeeps, & 8 cars. The corporation has also purchased breathing apparatus sets & rescue tools for almost all fire stations. In addition to this MIDC has also purchased an air field crash tender for the Nanded airport for aircraft related emergency calls.

MIDC Fire Service aims to achieve fire safety by way of implementation of its “Development Control Rules” (DC Rules) and “National Building Code of India-2005” (NBC-2005) & “Maharashtra Fire Prevention & Life safety Measure Act-2006 & Rules” and other relevant Acts, Codes and Standards. This helps MIDC to monitor that there is no compromise towards life safety and fire safety in its industrial areas which helps to ensure minimize the loss to precious human life and loss to the National property. The Fire department has also started online single window service through its portal which is helpful to plot holders to submit online applications for fire approvals. Other Services
These include providing and maintaining Common Facility Centers (CFC) like P & T, Banks etc. Though the Corporation does not levy any specific cess for the purpose, the CFC buildings are subject to rentals. Such rental together with other miscellaneous income from the area covers the maintenance cost of such CFCs.