With the passenger and freight trains having started its operation in Punjab after almost two months, leading industrialists from Ludhiana district on Tuesday welcomed the move saying that it will help to increase the production and boost Punjab’s economy.
Induction Furnace Association of North India president KK Garg, accompanied by industrialists Harish Dua, Harish Singla, Dev Gupta and Kulwant Singh, held a press conference to thank the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh for personally taking up the issue with the Central Government.
ndustrialists also expressed gratitude to the Central Government and farmers for accepting Capt Amarinder’s request for the betterment of the Punjab.
“COVID-19 has severely affected the business and now we are happy that train services have resumed. We will get the raw material and boost production,” he said adding that the trains have just resumed and the prices of steel, scrap and other raw materials have already stated dropping, which is a big relief to the industries.
Industrialists said that with resumption of railways movement, the labour which left for their homes for Chhath Puja could come back, otherwise, industrialists could have to face the labour scarcity.