CM holds review of Industries Dept
By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 1 Jul: Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami held a high-level meeting with the officials of the Industries Department and SIDCUL at the Secretariat here today. During the meeting, he directed the officers to prepare a complete calendar of works till the completion of the projects. He insisted that clear details including timeline of the projects which have been targeted to be completed in two years should be presented soon before him. Work on the proposed Convention Centre in Lal Tappad should be completed by July 2026.
It may be recalled that the Convention Centre is proposed to be constructed in an area of around 57 acres of land. The Chief Minister also directed that the process for the construction of the Film City proposed to be established in Dehradun should also be started soon. For this, 107 acres of land has been identified. He stressed early action should be taken to construct flatted factories (smaller industrial units set up in multistorey buildings) in Udham Singh Nagar and Selaqui besides Haridwar. It may be recalled that the process of construction of flatted factories on 5 lakh square feet of land in Haridwar is already in progress.
Dhami also directed the officials to set up the departments related to infrastructure development and technical skills in the same location. He also reminded that the work of allotment at IT Park should be done in line with the objectives with which IT Park was set up. He further directed the officers to make special efforts to promote industries in hills. He directed that arrangements should be made under the Private Industrial Estate Policy so that there is no separate need to invoke the provisions of Section 143 for land use change in order to avoid needless delay in the work. The CM said that apart from urban areas, industries should also be promoted rapidly in hills. He said that Rural Business Incubators should be promoted rapidly in hills. These, he felt, will play an important role in connecting youth and women with self-employment at village level itself.
It was informed in the meeting that about 50,000 people have got employment in the state under the Chief Minister’s Self-Employment Scheme. The CM directed that this scheme should be promoted widely so that people can get maximum benefit from it. CM’s Self-Employment Scheme Nano should also be added to the Chief Minister Self-Employment Scheme, he instructed, adding that a proposal should be submitted before the government in case there is a need to increase the budget under the CM Self-Employment Scheme.
Dhami stated that in order to double the state’s GDP by 2028, a target of investment of Rs 90,000 crores has been set in the manufacturing sector by 2028, but this target is very likely to be exceeded as it is hoped now that investment worth Rs 1,26,000 crores is going to be achieved. He said that for industrial development, work should also be done on the basis of best practices of other states.
Vice Chairman, Infrastructure Monitoring Council, Vishwas Dawar, Chief Secretary Radha Raturi, Additional Chief Secretary Anand Vardhan, Principal Secretary RK Sudhanshu, Secretary, Industries, Vinay Shankar Pandey, Additional Secretary Vijay Jogdande, Director General, Industries, Rohit Meena and other officers were present at the meeting.
