Jamshedpur: Work for the Adityapur Auto Cluster has gained momentum after the Centre announced 75 per cent subsidy for the Rs 65-crore project. Pushpak Management Services has been appointed as the consultant. Officials said a team of industrialists would soon leave for Pune and Nagpur to study auto clusters. The team will acquire knowledge on effluent treatment plants and hazardous waste management systems in Nagpur. The process will help incorporate the best methods and practices being followed by these clusters. "The proposed auto cluster will be one of its kind in the eastern region. Since Adityapur Industrial Area Development Authority (AIADA) has already earmarked 12 acres of land for the cluster, we have started the process of identifying other consultants,' said S.N. Thakur, the director of auto cluster project said. Apart from the main consultant, the company proposes to appoint new firms for developing other facilities under the project such as a high-tech laboratory, a hazardous waste treatment facility and an effluent treatment plant, which are currently missing in the industrial belt. The auto component manufacturers in Adityapur industrial area are expected to benefit from the upcoming cluster. It will also pro- vide a combined marketing platform to the industrial units. Thakur said that they would soon appoint a tech-nical and marketing adviser for the Adityapur Auto Cluster. "After an auto cluster in Pune, we are the second industrial belt to have one. In fact, the cluster here will have more facilities than the one in Maharashtra, which has a high-tech laboratory only,' said an official. At present, 10 industrial units are part of the cluster. The facilities are going to benefit more than 500 industrial units based in this region. "We will soon be trying to rope in more companies for the project. In fact, we will also write to big industrial houses based in the region for technical help,' the official said. The state government will bear 10 per cent cost of the project while the rest 15 per cent will be pooled in by industrialists. It aims at boosting the small and medium industries in the country.