Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal Khattar on Wednesday said that the Centre has agreed to set up a defence manufacturing unit in the State.
"The Defence Minister (Nirmala Sitharaman) has agreed to set up a defence manufacturing unit in Haryana. Efforts would be made to open this unit on the remaining vacant land of HMT Pinjore," said the Chief Minister while speaking in Panchkula near here.
He also said that the process for transfer of about 446 acres of land of now-shut tractor unit of HMT at Pinjore to the State Government has already started.
Manohar lal also informed that an apple market is proposed to be set up over 100 acres of vacant land of HMT, Pinjore, about 30 km from here.