Haryana seeks incentives for hilly areas

Chandigarh, Aug 17 (UNI) Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today said he had urged the Centre to provide special incentives for setting up industrial units in the hilly areas of Mewat and Panchkula in the state on the pattern of Uttranchal and Himachal Pradesh.

The Chief Minister stated this while interacting with media persons after inaugurating a Rs four crore printing machine set up by Indian Express Group of Newspapers in Panchkula this evening.

Mr Hooda said a Nano City would be set up over an area of 5,000 acres near Naraingarh in Ambala district for which a memorandum of understanding has been signed with Mr Sabeer Bhatia, the inventor of Hotmail.

Reiterating the commitment of the state government for the development of Panchkula, he said efforts were being made to provide basic amenities better than even Chandigarh to the residents of Panchkula.

To a question, he said the work to set up an Information Technology Park at Panchkula would be speeded up. Entrepreneurs were very quite enthused to get plots in the IT Park. A golf club of international standard would also be set up at this place.

In reply to another question, he said the work to construct a bypass for National Highway No 2, which connects Panchkula to Shimla would commence soon as all basic formalities including tenders had been completed.

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