Haryana
First Forest Research Institute In Haryana
- 16 May 2022
- 2 min read
Why In news
- On May 15, 2022, Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar announced the setting up of the first forest research institute at Jagadhari in Yamunanagar at a cost of Rs 50 crore to promote the plywood industry in the state.
Key Point
- This was announced by the Chief Minister while addressing the gathering at the Haryana Pragati Rally at Jagadhari. Earlier, he inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various projects worth about Rs.334 crores.
- Apart from this, the Chief Minister also announced to make the 10-bed hospital at Sahora a 50-bed hospital, a new college building on 14 acres of land in Kishanpura village, to make Farrukhpur School a Model Sanskriti School as well as a total of Rs.680 crore for various development works in the four assembly segments of Yamunanagar district .
- Manohar Lal Khattar said that in order to promote trade, the state government plans to create an industrial cluster of 50 to 100 acres in every block so that the youth get employment opportunities. Five clusters will be formed in all the five blocks of Yamunanagar.
- He said that industrial zones will be developed in the adjoining districts of Chandigarh, namely, Panchkula, Yamunanagar, Ambala and Kurukshetra on the lines of Gurugram.
