UIA demarcates land for light industries
Apr 14, 2006
PLOTS in industrial parks and estates<br>in and around Kampala, are up<br>for grabs. According to the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) the initiative targets both local and international investors. It is a government initiative to promote industrialisation.
By Jean-Marie Nsambu
PLOTS in industrial parks and estates
in and around Kampala, are up
for grabs. According to the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) the initiative targets both local and international investors. It is a government initiative to promote industrialisation.
One of the parks is at Luzira, a suburb 6km, East of Kampala city. Allocated 63.2acres of land, the Luzira Industrial Park (LIPA) is adjacent to the women’s section of the government Prisons at Murchison Bay.
Sheila Karungi Mugyenzi, an investment executive in charge of information at UIA, says the park is strategic, between the busy commercial neighbourhoods of Kitintale and Luzira. Bugolobi, Mbuya and Nakawa, are some of the other areas near the industrial park.
“A freehold title for the land was obtained by UIA in December last year. Also available is a first phase physical infrastructure and development masterplan of the park,†Karungi reveals.
Ranging from 1,200sq metres to 7,000sq metres in size, the plots are recommended for light industries. A plot map of the land is available for interested people. Each acres costs sh60m.
Karungi says 43 applicants who had before January 16, 2006, submitted their cover particulars, have been evaluated for the plots. They join the anchor investors in the LIPA programme, who include Cipla/Quality Chemicals Ltd, Engen Petroleum Company Limited and the Uganda National Bureau of Standards.
Applicants are also supposed to sign a land lease agreement with UIA, besides carrying out and abiding by an Environment Impact Assessment study, which ought to specify migration measures for setting up the project there.
PLOTS in industrial parks and estates
in and around Kampala, are up
for grabs. According to the Uganda Investment Authority (UIA) the initiative targets both local and international investors. It is a government initiative to promote industrialisation.
One of the parks is at Luzira, a suburb 6km, East of Kampala city. Allocated 63.2acres of land, the Luzira Industrial Park (LIPA) is adjacent to the women’s section of the government Prisons at Murchison Bay.
Sheila Karungi Mugyenzi, an investment executive in charge of information at UIA, says the park is strategic, between the busy commercial neighbourhoods of Kitintale and Luzira. Bugolobi, Mbuya and Nakawa, are some of the other areas near the industrial park.
“A freehold title for the land was obtained by UIA in December last year. Also available is a first phase physical infrastructure and development masterplan of the park,†Karungi reveals.
Ranging from 1,200sq metres to 7,000sq metres in size, the plots are recommended for light industries. A plot map of the land is available for interested people. Each acres costs sh60m.
Karungi says 43 applicants who had before January 16, 2006, submitted their cover particulars, have been evaluated for the plots. They join the anchor investors in the LIPA programme, who include Cipla/Quality Chemicals Ltd, Engen Petroleum Company Limited and the Uganda National Bureau of Standards.
Applicants are also supposed to sign a land lease agreement with UIA, besides carrying out and abiding by an Environment Impact Assessment study, which ought to specify migration measures for setting up the project there.