Jaipur, The Chief Minister Smt. Vasundhara Raje while
expressing pleasure on the interest shown by the foreign investors for the
infrastructure development in Rajasthan, she stressed the need for preparing an
integrated road map in order to prepare a combined strategy with the interested
investors especially investors from Japan and U.K.
Smt. Raje was addressing
a joint by presentation meeting held on "potential of investment in
Rajasthan" organised by Indian Centre Foundation and India in Corporate
(India inc.) with investors of UK and Japan at New Delhi on Monday. She said inclusive development of
Rajasthan was the top priority of her government. There were abundant
opportunities for infrastructure development in various sectors like Solar
Energy, Road, Citizens' Development, Health, Education, Tourism,
Water-Resources and Agriculture, she added.
The Chief Minister said
around 38 percent part of the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial and Freight Corridor
would pass through Rajasthan. Proximity of State with Delhi also attracts many
domestic and foreign investors towards Rajasthan. We were already working with
Japan at "Japanese Zone" developed in Neemrana while the second
Japanese Zone and South Korean Zone were proposed in Gilot, she added.
Infrastructure development was a challenging task in desert dominated Rajasthan
which had its peculiar geographical conditions. By adopting a holistic approach
we need to prepare an overall strategy and roadmap, she stated.
Smt. Raje said more
exercise was required to develop fast transport facilities by strengthening the
rail and road transport and expanding air services. Rajasthan had distinctive
position on the world tourism map due to its art, culture and heritage. She
suggested that representatives from the Japan and U.K Government could begin
initial talk with the Chief Secretary and Additional Chief Secretary of Rajasthan
and prepare a roadmap.
The Chief Minister
suggested to include employment generation in this roadmap. She said special focus
should be made on employment generating schemes in agriculture, industry and
health sectors. She also suggested for developing trauma-centres to provide
immediate assistance to people injured in accidents.
The Energy Minister Shri
Gajendra Singh Khinvsar said efforts were being made to tap the abundant
potential in solar energy sector. The PWD Minister Shri Yunus Khan suggested that
bullet train and development of agriculture based industries should be included
parallel to the proposed Express Highway costing Rs. 12,000 crores between
Delhi-Jaipur.
The Chairman of India
Centre Foundation Shri Vipul Kant Upadhyay gave presentation on India-Japan
global partnership. Shri Kant said Japan was going to organise India-Japan
Global Partnership Summit and it was proposed to include Rajasthan as a focus
state. He said that the Japanese Prime Minister had special interest in
Rajasthan and requested the Chief Minister to visit Japan to have a look at the
infrastructure development works carried out in Japan. While referring of the
age old relations between India and U.K., India in Corporate (India inc) CEO Shri Manoj Ladwa said U.K. had long experience
of working in PPP model and Rajasthan could get benefit of it.
The Chief Secretary Shri
Rajiv Mehirishi, Additional Chief Secretary C.S. Rajan, Principal Secretary
Finance Shri Subhash Garg, Principal Secretary PWD Shri D. B. Gupta, Principal
OSD to CM Shri Arijit Benerjee, members of the State Planning Board Shri Rajesh
B. Shah, Shri S.N. Subramanyam, Ms. Rubina Diwan, Shri Satyendra Singh Tomar,
Shri Aroop Ganguly and Ms. Patricia Hope Hewitt and other senior officials were
present on this occasion.
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