Touting Haryana as a land of opportunity and enterprise with its modern industrial infrastructure, Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda today invited the Indian diaspora to become partners in sustainable and inclusive growth model of the state.
Addressing the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas plenary session, he said to encourage entrepreneurship, the base of education and technical training is being strengthened and Haryana is going to emerge as an international hub of education in the next five to seven years.
"The focus is on qualitative aspects of education and Haryana is going to emerge as an educational hub of not just national standards but of international standards in the next five to seven years," he said .
He said the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC) will give a lot of opportunity to Haryana to further expand and create infrastructure in the state.
The Chief Minister said Haryana has a number of national universities and national centres and the Prime Minister has laid the foundation stone of a Global Centre for Nuclear Partnership in Jhajjar.
Hooda said quality healthcare is another sector to which the state government is committed and the per capita expenditure on health has increased by about 300 per cent in the last few years.
While two new medical colleges have been opened and two more are being set up to give boost to medical education, a national cancer institute at a cost of Rs 2,000 crore is being set up in Jhajjar.
Hooda said from an agrarian state, it is today among the leading industrial states of the country with manufacturing and services sectors contributing about 83 per cent to the Gross State Domestic Product.
"Progress of any state can be assessed from four broad parameters - per capita income, per capita investment, per capita plan budget and resource mobilisation and Haryana is leading on all these fronts," he said.
Inviting the Indian diaspora to visit Haryana to see for themselves the development of state, Hooda said it is according special facilitation to them and up to 10 per cent of the industrial plots have been reserved for NRIs.
Hooda said to facilitate investments of NRIs in the state, Haryana has created a Foreign Investment and Non-resident Indian (NRI) Cell, which will also address problems faced by NRIs and Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) relating to property, marital discord and law and order and will provide guidance and advisory services for attracting foreign investment.
He also visited the Haryana pavilion, established near the Pravasi Bharatiya Diwas-2014 site later.
