FREMONT: Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar and his team of 32-member officials and business delegation was given a warm dinner reception on August 20 by Dr Romesh Japra and Sunita Japra at their residence Japra Mahal, Fremont. Dr Romesh Japra is an eminent Cardiologist and Convener of FIA of Northern California and has been conducting the Festival of India for past 23 years in Bay area.
The CM’s delegation visited New York, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Vancouver and Toronto. It held deliberations with leading industrialists in the US and Canada along with Non-Resident Indians.
“The objective was to woo them to invest in Haryana in the key areas of food processing, information technology/ information technology-enabled services, solar energy and renewable energy, mass rapid transit, skill development, defense production-aerospace and defense, etc” said CM Khattar. He has highlighted to US investors the state’s comparative edge as an investment destination and regulatory reform measures undertaken by the government to promote ease of doing business.
“To achieve this end, I am proud of the reform efforts that have gone in to making public services more efficient,” he said touching on several important topics that have dominated the bilateral commercial relationship in recent months. Land registration is now enabled through information technology, long-pending land acquisition cases have been resolved and infrastructure construction is faster.
This was evidenced by the completion of the Delhi-Faridabad Metro project and restarting of work on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal Expressway.
“We are pushing for policy reforms in a manner that will place Haryana as a business-friendly state and create jobs,” he added. “I welcome American enterprise to be a part of our state’s growth.
” Noting that since 2000, Haryana has emerged as a major investment hub in Northern India, USIBC President Mukesh Aghi said the city of Gurgaon is a key centre for the information technology and automotive industries. “The state’s Enterprise Promotion Policy 2015 aims at enhancing ease of doing business, promotes micro, small-scale and medium enterprises and encourages long-term investment in the state to flourish.”
The business delegation accompanying the chief minister includes top officials of various business entities located at Gurgaon, Yamunanagar, Faridabad, Karnal and Rohtak, the spokesman added.
Vidya Sethuraman
India Post News Service
