23 industrialists awarded at PHDCCI meet

Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda honoured 23 industrialists of Haryana in Chandigarh last evening on the occasion of the PHDCCI Centenary Partnership Summit.

Hooda said the state had realised the need for sound infrastructure to attract investments and so negotiations were on to adopt a public-private partnership model.

He said in order to combat power shortages, the state government had set the target of 9,000 Mw during the next three and a half years.

The Haryana government had received proposals for investment of Rs 7,000 crore after the announcement of the new industrial policy, he added.

He said the new industrial policy rules had been simplified and institutional mechanism put in order so that it became investor-friendly. "Units had been Gurgaon-Faridabad-centric, but are now spreading to places like Bahadurgarh," Hooda said.