Gurugram alone gets 80% of investment in entire state

CHANDIGARH : Gurugram has got bulk of the investment received by Haryana after its Global Investors’ Summit last year.

Out of 359 MoUs signed for intended investment of Rs 5.84 crore, the state government has received investment of Rs 11,900 so far with about two-third of it being in Gurugram district .

A total investment of Rs 85,076 crore is involved in 157 projects for which agreements were signed during the ‘Happening Haryana’ investment summit last year and where work has already started.

Of this, Rs 67,716 crore, which comes to about 80%, has been cornered by Gurugram district, known as the manufacturing and investment hub of the state. The investment has been proposed in 22 projects, industries and commerce minister Vipul Goyal in a written reply to the question of BJP MLA Naresh Kaushik.

Faridabad has got 35 projects with proposed investment of Rs 5,104 crore with a fourth of it having been made already. While Sonepat district has 40 projects where the work has started with a proposed investment of Rs 3,061 crore, Jind, Rohtak, Palwal, Jhajjar, Kaithal, Sirsa, Bhiwani and Yamunanagar have remained laggards in attracting investments, reflecting inequitable growth in the state.

In Jind, work on only one project with proposed investment of Rs 62 lakh has started. Rohtak, which had received major attention of the previous Congress government, has two projects in which investment of Rs 160 crore is proposed. HTC