Shashank Shekhar
Bokaro ( Jharkhand ) : Committed to make Jharkhand an ideal investment destination which in last 10 months has succeeded in either starting or signing MoUs for establishment of 195 small, medium and largescale industries on which Rs 3,475 crores are being spent which will generate 17,000 direct employment besides 50,000 indirect employment, Jharkhand CM Raghubar Das on December 20, 2017, declared that seeing the enthusiasm of global and national level industrialists he is sure that within next few years this state will turn into most developed industrialized state of the country.
CM Das was speaking on the 3rd groundbreaking ceremony—III of ‘Momentum Jharkhand’ held at Bokaro on December 20 for establishment of Industries in the state during which foundation of 104 industries were laid at Bokaro.
Earlier, on May 18, 2017, foundation of 21 industries were laid at Ranchi in the first ground breaking ceremony held there followed by second ground breaking ceremony held at Jamshedpur on August 19, 2017, when foundation of 71 projects were laid and with foundation of another 104 laid on December 20, the total has increased to 195 projects.
A list of all projects were even given to mediapersons along with the place and total investment.
Promising to turn the state the best for setting of industries by giving complete infrastructure along with transparent and perfect governance and best industrial policy for making this land most suitable for an ultimate investment destinations for establishment of national and even global companies, Das said that Jharkhand was following Gujarat model of industrial growth and the day was not far off when youth of this land will not travel to other states in search of jobs.
“Construction of roads, giving surplus power by establishment of power plants, air connectivity and Rule of law is on my priority list and I will not allow anyone to put hurdles in implementation of my programme.
Two more power plants at Patratu and Tenughat are in pipeline while Steel, power and fertilizer plants are coming up on old campus of presently closed Sindri factory. Prime Minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina and Indian PM Narendra Modi will be coming for laying foundation stone of Sindri multi purpose project at Dhanbad early next year,” informed CM Das.
Earlier Jharkhand chief secretary Rajbala Verma, industries secretary Sunil Barnawal and three entrepreneurs also addressed the function held at sector V ground in which besides others Jharkhand ministers Louis Marandi, Neera Yadav, Raj Paliwar and Randhir Singh and five MLAs of Bokaro, Dhanbad and Ranchi were present. Bokaro DC R M Ray and SP Karthik S were also present. Jharkhand Development Commissioner Amit Khare and CM’s principal secretary Sanjay Kumar were also present.