Monday, 30 October 2023 | PNS | DEHRADUN
The Bharatiya Janata Party has claimed that it is working in a committed manner to achieve the desired level of development in Uttarakhand. The party is also confident that the investment target set for the global investors summit will be easily achieved. Addressing the media at the BJP State office here on Sunday, the party’s State spokesman Suresh Joshi said that as per the target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi for best and self-reliant Uttarakhand, the government under chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami is working in a committed manner. With Central help, large scale improvements have been made in various essential aspects of the State’s infrastructure. “The Dhami government took revolutionary decisions on the subject of employment and with the cooperation of the media, uprooted the mafia which had taken root in the appointment process for years. As a result, more than 15,000 government jobs have been provided to the youth in an impartial and transparent manner in recent years,” he said.
Stressing on the need for large scale capital investment to make this Uttarakhand’s decade, Joshi said that the State government set a target of Rs 2.5 lakh crore investment in the global investors summit to achieve the big target of making Uttarakhand a developed State. “Due to the efforts under Dhami’s leadership, proposals for investments amounting to about Rs 69,300 crore have been received so far. We have achieved about 30 per cent of the target set for the global investors summit more than a month before the event through such memoranda of understanding. The CM is slated to tour the important industrial and financial cities of Mumbai, Delhi and Ahmedabad regarding investments. We are expected that that maximum investment will be facilitated during the summit slated to be held on December 8-9. Considering the signs so far, we are expecting to easily achieve the Rs 2.5 lakh crore investment target set for the summit. We have concrete reasons to believe so because the CM and his team have held detailed discussions with experts, experienced policy makers and consultant agencies to prepare a plan for attracting investments. This is the reason why investors are considering Uttarakhand as a favourable destination for investment. The focus areas for investment are the traditional spheres including tourism and hospitality, Ayush and wellness, film shooting, food processing, automobiles, pharmaceuticals, renewable energy and information technology. There is immense scope for development in these sectors,” the BJP leader said.
