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"Rajasthan not considered backward"

JAIPUR: Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje has invited entrepreneurs to invest in the desert State as partners in the development initiative, while affirming that Rajasthan would emerge as a "power-surplus" State within the next two years.

Addressing a session in the India Economic Summit-2006 in New Delhi on Tuesday, Ms. Raje said Rajasthan had made a lot of achievements on the infrastructure front and would have surplus power with reforms introduced in the sector and a massive programme launched for maintenance of transmission lines.

Ms. Raje, while pointing out that Rajasthan was no more considered backward, said the State Government was devising new strategies for development by formulating schemes at the district level. "For the first time, public private partnership has been implemented on a big scale in the State, covering sectors such as tourism and midday meals," she said.

The three-day India Economic Summit was organised jointly by the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and World Economic Forum.

Ms. Raje called for policy formulation by the Centre to help the farmers get remunerative prices for their produce and make proper arrangements for storage of foodgrains and other crops.

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