Haryana CM Manohar Lal Khattar (right) at a press conference, in Chennai on Wednesday. - Photo: Bijoy Ghosh
In Chennai on a road show ahead of Happening Haryana investors summit
Chennai, February 10:
Japanese auto
major Suzuki is examining the option of investing in Haryana, according
to the State Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
During
a recent visit to Japan to attract potential investors to the State, he
had met Osamu Suzuki, CEO, Suzuki Motor, and invited him to put up a
plant in the State, the Chief Minister told newspersons on a road show
on Happening Haryana, a global investors summit scheduled to take place
in Gurgaon on March 7 and 8.
Haryana produces 50 per
cent of the passenger vehicles and 60 per cent of the motorcycles in the
country. It is also home to three small- and medium-size enterprise
auto-component clusters, he said.
During his visit to
Beijing, Chinese group Dalian Wanda had pledged an investment of $10
billion to set up an industrial park near Sonepat, Khattar said.
Last
November, the target was to attract around ₹1 lakh crore investments
during the GIM. However, the number could be more than double as ₹60,000
crore has already been committed by Dalian Wanda.
The State government has already signed nearly 20 agreements with various companies that plan to invest in Haryana, he said.
New policies
The
State government would soon unveil its new labour and IT policies to
boost the industrial sector and provide employability to youth.
The new labour policy would be more industrial and labour friendly, the Chief Minister added.
Khattar
said several leading companies of South India have offered investment
proposals to the tune of ₹3,000 crore in the State. Officials from 12
companies met him in the morning and expressed interest in establishing
their units in the State, in sectors such as logistic, manufacturing,
food processing, infrastructure, glass industry and education.
The
companies include Gati Limited, Siemens Industry Software Limited,
Lucas TVS Limited, Saint Gobain India, Schwing Stetter (India) and Farm
Fresh Banana, Khattar said.
Chennai was the third
city after Delhi and Kolkata to have the road show. The next stop-over
will be Bengaluru, followed by Mumbai.
There were road shows organised in the US and Canada as well, he said.
(This article was published on February 10, 2016)
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