State BJP president Deepak Prakash on Tuesday met Union textile minister Piyush Goyal and raised the issue of setting up a Textile Park in the State. Prakash said that the Union Government is very much interested in setting up Textile Park in the State provided the State government provides land.
The BJP leader also said that with setting up textile park in Jharkhand, large scale employment opportunities will be created which will be great advantageous to youth.
Prakash urged the state government to seriously consider the proposal for setting up Textile Park in the state along with creating infrastructure such as road, power and water connectivity in the area where the government will allot land for the same purpose.
Meanwhile, in another development the BJP president and party Rajya Sabha member Deepak Prakash has targeted the State Government for reducing the annual target of road construction under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana from 563 km to 444 km in State. The BJP leader termed the Government decision as an anti-development plank of alliance government and said that the government has no focus on improvement of infrastructure in the State.
Prakash leader said that the State Government has no right to reduce the target of PMGSY road construction without the consultation of Centre. Prakash said, “If any changes have to be made, then the Prime Minister's Office should be fully informed about it. But reducing or changing the target of Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana by going beyond the provisions of the Jharkhand Government is a serious matter.”
Taking a jibe at the Jharkhand government, Prakash said that the anti-development face of the Jharkhand government, which has unnecessarily and falsely accusing the central government of discriminating against non-BJP territories at all times, has also come to the fore.
Prakash said that Union Minister for Road Nitin Gadgari has assured the State Government of providing full support in construction of roads to the level of Europe and America in 3 years and to increase the annual plan of Jharkhand from Rs 675 crores to Rs 5,000 crores for the financial year 2022.
Jharkhand has so far been able to construct only 110 km of road. When the central government expressed concern over this and asked the reason for the slow pace, the concerned officers and engineers of the Jharkhand government informed about this change that Jharkhand has changed the annual physical target and now the target of constructing 444 km of road this year has been fixed.