Russia has evinced keen interest in mutual cooperation with Haryana in the areas of aero space and semi-conductor chip manufacturing.
The Minister of Government of Moscow, Sergey Cheremin, who called on Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal and Finance Minister Capt Abhimanyu here on Tuesday to discuss various investment opportunities in Haryana said that Russia is keen to promote business relationship with India and Haryana.
Sergey Cheremin was leading a Russian Government delegation.
Haryana has also assured all support and cooperation for further strengthening business ties with Russia.
While welcoming the delegation, Capt. Abhimanyu said that defense and aero space sectors have been prominently highlighted in the state’s new industrial policy besides offering special incentives, in case, production takes place in Haryana.
He said that the State Government has a plan to set up an aviation hub over an area of 3000 acres in Hisar, about 150 kilometers from International Airport at New Delhi. This would be taken up by the Government as an alternative airport, said he.
Recently, Haryana Government had organized its first ever ‘Happening Haryana Global Investors’ Summit-2016’ at Gurgaon which has proved as a highly successful in the country. As many as 359 MoUs were signed during the Investors Summit with investment proposals to the tune of Rs 5.84 lakh crores, he informed.
Capt. Abhimanyu said that India always had strong relations with the USSR in the past and Russian Federation now and Haryana Government believes that there is ample potential for mutual cooperation in different fields between the two countries.
He said that engineering skills of Russia are well recognized in India and hoped that there would be more joint ventures between India and Russia. “We intend to come up in top five countries as far as trade partnership is concerned”, he added.
Earlier, Principal Secretary Industries Devender Singh informed that optical fibers have been laid in 70 per cent villages of the state and on achieving hundred per cent target, telecommunication sector would get a big boost.
Managing Director, Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC) Sudhir Rajpal said that the Corporation has 31 industrial estates in the state where about 10,000 acres of developed land is available. Apart from this, the State Government is actively promoting the system that if someone did not prefer to take land in the industrial estates, he could directly purchase it for setting up of their units, he said.