Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, attending the seventh meeting of the Governing Council of NITI Aayog, said that the Central Government should promote natural farming in the country.
The Chief Minister said that the Haryana Government is making every possible effort to realize the vision of Atma Nirbhar Bharat and the State will usher in a new era of sustainable economic growth and equitable social and regional development.
In the meeting, the NITI Aayog assured full cooperation to the State Governments in achieving the target of India becoming a USD 5 trillion economy. With this, the Aayog has also assured states of reducing imports and boosting exports of the country.
Khattar said that despite being a small state, Haryana has made a significant contribution to the country's economy. The per capita income of Haryana is Rs 2,74,635, which is the highest among the major states of India. Haryana is also included in the leading states of the country on the parameters of economic development, he added.
Since 2015-16 to 2020-21, the State's growth rate has been continuously recorded at more than 6 percent. Haryana’s manufacturing growth rate is 10 percent, which is highest in the country.
Khattar said that the offices of 400 Fortune companies of the world are set up in Gurugram. Haryana is also the largest software exporting state in the country, while in terms of providing logistics facilities to industries, Haryana is placed at the second position in the country and first in North India. “To promote the business and industrial sector in this NCR region, we are developing it as a Logistic Hub,” informed Khattar. The Chief Minister said that Haryana is included in the top achievers category in the recently released State Ease of Doing Business ranking. For its remarkable work in the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME) sector, Haryana has been ranked third in the country, while in the NITI Aayog’s Innovation Index, Haryana has been ranked among the top 3 states of the country, asserted the CM.
Pointing out that Haryana’s agricultural growth rate is about 3.3 percent per annum, with high productivity of Rs 1.57 lakh per hectare and growth rate of about 8.7 percent, Khattar said that all this clearly indicates that the state’s farmers’ income is constantly increasing.
The Chief Minister said that the use of the latest technology and crop diversification is being promoted in the state. He further informed that an incentive of Rs 7000 per acre is given to the farmers who grow these crops in place of paddy under the 'Mera Pani-Meri Virasat' scheme. Furthermore, an incentive amount of Rs 76 crore has been deposited in the accounts of 74,133 farmers through DBT.