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Sanganer's textile units to be shifted

By Our Special Correspondent

JAIPUR, AUG. 12. The Rajasthan Government has decided to ask the polluting textile units in five major centres of traditional dying and printing to move out. Today's State Cabinet meeting, presided over by the Chief Minister, Vasundhara Raje, after deliberating on the recommendations of a committee which looked into the issue, decided in favour of re-locating the units.

Briefing newspersons on the marathon, six-hour long meeting, the Parliamentary Affairs Minister, Rajendra Rathore, said the textile units in Sanganer near Jaipur, Baltora and Jassol in Barmer district and in Pali were the ones which would be asked to shift out to new locations being developed as industrial areas.

The decision is to shift 141 identified polluting units in Sanganer to Mohana village where a new industrial estate will be developed. As many as 807 dying and printing units in the district town of Pali would be moved to a 430 bigha area in Punayata in the district. The Baltora units, numbering 473 will be provided alternative land on Jalera Road.

The hand printing units in Jassol, the native town of the former Union Finance Minister, Jaswant Singh, will not be shifted but a treatment plant would be installed there in a month's time. The Cabinet did not take a decision on the polluting units in Bithuja as the matter is before the court at present.

Mr. Rathore said the Chief Minister would announce an Annual Agenda for 16 departments on Independence Day. Like in the case of the programme the State Government had for the first 100 days, the Annual Agenda for the departments like Education, Public Health Engineering Department, Agriculture, Forest and Environment would contain action programme for the bureaucrats and the concerned Ministers to be completed in a year.

The Cabinet also constituted a committee under the chairmanship of the Education Minister, Ghanshyam Tiwari, to prepare a uniform transfer policy in the State. The Committee will submit its report in two months. Another committee, set up under the chairmanship of the Home Minister, Gulab Chand Kataria, would look into the implementation of the World Bank assisted poverty eradication programme going on in seven districts.

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