Massive fire at Mohota’s Gimatex Industries
   Date :10-May-2021

Mohotas Gimatex _1 &
 The processing unit of Gimatex Industries in Yerala, Hinganghat
up in flames.
 
 
Hinganghat Correspondent :
 
Loss of around Rs 25 crore estimated as machinery, 7,500 cotton bales, 4.5 tonne cotton seeds destroyed completely
 
Ten fire fighting vehicles summoned to the spot from different places 
 
A massive fire at Gimatex Industries Wardha district reduced 7,500 cotton bales to ashes and destroyed the machinery. The fire began at 1.30 pm when cotton pressing was going on at a unit in the factory and within no time the entire unit was burnt down, causing losses worth around Rs 25 crore. As per details, Gimatex Industries Private Limited was started by the renowned Mohota Group at Yerala, in Hinganghat tehsil seven years ago. On Sunday afternoon, factory workers were busy working in the pressing unit when fire suddenly broke out in one corner.
 
Even as efforts were made to douse the flames, the strong wind that was blowing hampered the process and within no time the entire unit was up in flames. All the machines in the unit, 7,500 bales of cotton and 4.5 tonnes of cotton seeds were lost in the inferno. The extent of the fire was so massive that the fire fighting system at the ginning mill was hardly of any help. The fire started at 1.30 pm after which supervisor Laxman Jikar informed his superiors. Meanwhile, fire fighters from Hinganghat, Wardha, Wani, Pandharkawada and Pulgaon rushed to the spot and started their operation. Fire brigades were also called from Uttam Galwa Wardha, CAD, Pulgaon, Yavatmal and other places. But none could save anything in the the unit. It may be noted that the ginning of last stock of cotton was going on when the fire started. As per primary estimate, material worth around Rs 25 crore has been destroyed in the fire.
 
Factory Manager Shakir Khan Pathan informed that the ginning-pressing unit, spread in five acre area, was busy with processing of cotton purchased in latest season. As the work was in the last phase there was a big number of cotton bales and cotton seeds stocked in the premises.
 
The fire has also destroyed all the modern machinery and therefore the figure of losses is big, he said. Gimatex owner Basant Kumar Mohota, Tehsildar Shriram Mundhada, Naib Tehsildar Shamsher Pathan, Wadner’s PSO Rejendra Shete, Factory Manager Pathan, Premsingh Rajput and others had reached the spot. At the time of filing this report, more than ten fire fighting vehicles that had arrived from different places, were busy dousing the flames. Fortunately, though the scale of the fire was massive, there was no loss of life and and all workers were safe.