Will ensure time-bound approval of projects: Jai Ram to investors

SAYS STATE GOVT HAS ALREADY SIGNED 614 PACTS OF NEARLY ₹93,000CR AGAINST SET TARGET OF ₹85,000CR THROUGH THE INVESTORS’ MEET

minister Jai Ram Thakur on Friday said the state government will provide all possible help to the interested entrepreneurs for setting up units in the state.

He was addressing the investors, who entered into agreement with the state government in manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, food processing, IT and electronics on the second day of the Rising Himachal Global Investors’ Meet here.

Thakur said it was for the first time that the state government had taken a holistic approach to attract investments to the state and make Himachal an ‘investors’ haven’.

He said the state had varied climatic conditions and a diverse topographic, making it suitable for growing wide range of medicinal plants. Besides, the state, which is know as the fruit bowl of the country, also holds immense potential in food processing.

The chief minister held a meeting with potential investors in tourism, wellness and AYUSH sector on the second day of the meet. “The state offers a variety of choices in tourism sector like adventure sports, wildlife, ecotourism, heritage, spiritual, monuments, religious and skiing. We are committed to make sustainable tourism as one of the prime engines of growth in the state by establishing it as a leading tourism destination,” the chief minister said.

He said Himachal is a ‘pharmaceutical hub of Asia’ with about 300 pharma companies and over 700 pharma manufacturing units operational in the hill state.

Thakur said the state government would act as facilitator for investors to get time-bound approvals of all their projects so that they could be implemented without any delay. “The state offers attractive incentives under the industrial policy and has recently amended the policy in tourism, AYUSH, IT and electronics and hydropower sectors to make them more attractive and industry friendly,” he added.