A seven-member delegation — headed by Baroness Verma, Parliamentary Under Secretary for United Kingdom — met Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal at his residence and emphasised that they were focusing on three States — Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan — to cooperate and improve initiatives in the fields of renewable energy, solid waste management and creation of e-knowledge in the young population.
The delegation also met Haryana Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu where the Minister offered UK to invest in the fields of skill development, technology, industrial development, renewable energy and solid waste management.
Meeting Punjab Deputy CM, the delegation apprised that they were interested that officials of the Punjab Government tie up with the officials of the UK delegation and exchange details about procedures via which entrepreneurs of UK could come and study the investment scenario in Punjab for making investments in these sectors.
The Deputy CM requested the delegation that he would be extremely glad if the companies of United Kingdom could come and share their technology and make investments in the field of solid waste management in major urban centres of Punjab.
In Haryana, Capt Abhimanyu asked Baroness to explore the possibilities for setting up a project in mutual cooperation in the field power generation. Baroness Verma thanked Sharma for this proposal and said that business houses of UK are keen to promote trade and investment in Haryana and for this, a delegation of UK investors will visit Haryana in the month of January 2015. “We are aiming a long term future with Haryana”, she added.
Sharma said that, there is lot of potential for mutual cooperation in the field of industrial development and technology as adequate quantity of material and plenty of manpower is available in Haryana.