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President to open Panipat thermal unit

By Our Special Correspondent

CHANDIGARH, AUG.23. The Haryana Chief Minister, Om Prakash Chautala, has said that the President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, would inaugurate the 250 MW seventh unit of Panipat thermal plant on September 25 and the eighth unit would also be commissioned on December 31. Thereafter there would be uninterrupted supply of power to the industrial and agricultural sectors.

Addressing a meeting of various industrial associations in Gurgaon yesterday, Mr.Chautala said

his Government had given a number of incentives and concessions to trade and industry due to which these sectors had flourished. It was also the first State in the country to implement the Value Added Tax (VAT) system when it was introduced by the erstwhile NDA regime.

The former president of Punjab Haryana and Delhi (PHD) Chamber of Commerce and Industries, P.K.Jain, hoped that grievances of the industry would be redressed soon with the setting up of the grievance cell. Others who spoke included the president of the Gurgaon Industrial Association, Naresh Yadav, the vice-president of the Gurgaon Industrial Association, N.P.Singh, the president of IT Association, Pradeep Yadav, the president of IMT Manesar Association, Paresh Nayyar, and the president of Sohna Industrial Association,Khatana.

Later addressing a meeting of industrialists of Karnal and Panipat at Panipat, he disclosed that 7,000 industrial plots had been allotted to entrepreneurs in Haryana

since July 1999 and an investment of Rs. 10,000 crores would be made to develop industries on these plots thus creating employment opportunities for about two lakh people. Moreover, 208 large and medium scale units and about 5,000 small units were set up during the tenure of the present Government. About 80 acres of land had been acquired in Panipat by the Haryana State Industrial Development Corporation and it would soon undertake the development of the area which in turn would generate employment opportunities.

While interacting with industrialist at Faridabad, he said that his regime was considering to set up a combined developmental Authority for Faridabad and Gurgaon for enhancement of basic infrastructure of these enterprising cities. He affirmed that Faridabad would definitely be connected with the Metro Rail Project. Steps would also be taken for connecting the cities of Rewari, Sonipat, Panipat and Bahadurgarh with this ambitious project, he added.

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