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One power project each for three years: Hooda

CHANDIGARH: Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said on Sunday that those Opposition leaders who had nursed their own interests in the name of mass welfare were not able to digest the unprecedented pace of development in the State.

Speaking at a function organised by the Punjabi Welfare Society at Hisar, Mr. Hooda asserted that during the last 33 months, the pace of development in both urban and rural areas had got a big boost and it was his endeavour to make Haryana the number one State in the country. Mr. Hooda asserted that his regime was setting up new power generation projects to add 5,000 MW of power generation capacity and for the next three years one power project would start generation every year. Stating that efforts were on to resolve the problems of unemployment and shortage of electricity, he reiterated that the power problem was an inherited one as his predecessors did not make wholehearted efforts to enhance the State’s generation capacity which was merely 1,587 MW. Haryana was getting about 2,000 MW from other projects as against the demand of 6,000 MW. This demand would further increase to 8,500 MW by the year 2010.

While referring to the problem of unemployment, he said that industrialisation was the answer. He pointed out that government jobs were limited and the size of land holdings was also shrinking. Therefore, his regime was now giving incentives for setting up of industries in backward areas.

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