Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has decided to consider a soft loan of over Rs 1,000 crore for Haryana Investment Promotion Programme.
This was stated by Hideaki Domichi, Senior Vice President of JICA while interacting with the delegation led by Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal in Tokyo on Monday.
Domichi said that the introduction of a Japanese Call Centre, no enhancement policy and plugging of all the breaches in the boundary wall of Manesar were steps that make it very clear that Haryana has changed
under the leadership of Manohar lal.
He said that Chief Minister’s vision, speed and scale make it imperative
for JICA to shoulder
greater responsibility in economic development of Haryana.
Domichi added that Haryana was well positioned to receive the benefit of
the stronger alliance
between Japan and India under the leadership of Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo
Abe and Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The Chief Minister Manohar lal sought the assistance of JICA in giving a big boost to dairy development in Haryana and building of Gurgaon-Manesar-Bawal Mass Rapid Transport
System for which JICA has committed long term funding of $2.5 billion.