"Growth will reach double figures only when there is infrastructure.... If you change the policy too often, then the country would not develop. Policy should be for 20 or 30 years," Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh said here.
Referring to the 'no-go areas' policy of the Environment ministry for mineral mining, he said "if people in Delhi decide on go and no go areas, then the states will not develop."
Expressing similar sentiments, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal said policy has to be state specific. "Unfortunately, at the national level, when policies are decided, special circumstances (of states) are not considered," he said.
The two, along with Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna and Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Kumar Modi, were speaking at an event organised by an Industry body.
Dhumal said the incentives introduced by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government for hill states, including Jammu and Kashmir, were withdrawn by the UPA government. "Now, we have demanded restoration of the incentives," he said.
Sushil Modi, whose state Bihar is ruled by the NDA, said if the Centre does not help poor states, then the overall rate economic development of the country would not increase.
He chose the opccasion to raise the state's demand for granting it special status.
He said the much-hyped cash transfer scheme announced by the Centre was in place in his state for the last six years.
"There should be no politics on the issue," he said adding that the Bihar government was using a similar scheme to provide cycles and uniforms to students.
Bahuguna said he was concentrating on development of human resources in Uttarakhand to provide the industry with much need trained manpower.
He also said that policies should suit both the interests of the state as well as the Industry.
