JCB

The firm has reached the milestone of issuing one million Rupay JCB cards in India

Authorities carried out a drive on Wednesday and demolished three illegal colonies here, officials said. The team used a JCB machine to demolish illegal constructions, boundary walls of four plots among other structures, they said. District Town Planner (Enforcement) Amit Madholia said these illegal colonies had come up in Farrukhnagar, Mubarikpur and Taj Nagar. The department had received a complaint which was investigated, he said. "After probing the matter, the complaint was found to be true following which notices were also issued to those who developed these colonies illegally. "They were instructed to remove the illegal constructions but even after issuing them notices, when these structures were not removed, the department's team demolished the three illegal colonies spread over five-and-a-half acres. The drive against the illegal construction will be continue," said Madholia said.

JCB India's revenues jumped from Rs 4,500 cr in 2010-11 to nearly Rs 12,000 cr in 2020-21, while profits surged from Rs 483 cr to Rs 1,500 crore

Hitting out at UK PM Johnson for inaugurating a JCB factory in Gujarat a day after municipal corporation in Delhi razed homes in Jahangirpuri using bulldozers, Amnesty India called the move "ignorant"

The new facility will process 85,000 tonnes of steel annually and is expected to create 1,200 jobs.

Despite witnessing demand compression in 2019, JCB India has decided to go ahead with its Rs 650-crore new facility

JCB caters to the roads, highways, irrigation, railways and real estate sectors

The company said the upward trend in the industry has been due to the revival of the roads and highways sector