VijayDarda, member of Rajya Sabha asked Devendra
Fadnavis, Chief Minister of Maharashtra government, to facilitate the
establishment of an automobile hub in Vidarbha in order to generate job
opportunities and attract investment in the region.
In a letter to the
Chief Minister, the Member of Parliament said that the industry of automobile
has the prospective to generate large employment opportunities. Since a single
major unit supports 100 to 300 subsidiary units, the government should
establish an automobile center in Nagpur.
According to Vijay Darda, for the last three years,
he tried to follow the problem with the Maharashtra government. The Member of
Parliament said that he wrote to Prithviraj Chavan, former Chief Minister, and
Pratful Patel, the then Minister of Heavy Industries, on the issue. He
mentioned also in the same letter that Jawaharlal Darda, the then state
minister of industries, made an effort to bait auto industry to the region of
Vidarbha.
Tractor plant of
Mahindra & Mahindra was established in MIDC and is running successfully. According
to the chairman of the Lokmat Group, the plant started just with five tractors
daily and currently the capacity has increased to 250 tractors daily.
Vidarbha is the perfect
region to establish an industry thanks to its healthy weather round the year,
world class social and industrial infrastructure, and geo-centric site. Vijay Darda said that the region needs
just a strong promotion by providing tax and sops concessions. He added that if
the state government set up the automobile center in the region, it will
generate job opportunities in the 11 districts of the area.
On another matter,
government told Rajya Sabha that a company based in Holland conducted a
technical study about a waterway between Agra and Delhi. According to Nitin
Gadkari, Union Minister of Road Transport and Shipping, the task report for the
waterway is already complete. He revealed that he met already the Delhi
government three times on the project. He said also that a project to clean
river Yamuna between Haldia and Varanasi has also started. The project costs Rs
4200 crore.
The Delhi and Centre
government have started jointly the project in which Delhi Municipal
Corporation and Delhi Development Authority have joined also. The answer of
Nitin Gadkari followed the issue raised by member of Congress Digvijay Singh
about the pollution in river Yamuna in Delhi. The Congress member reproached
the central government of not achieving the promises made by the preceding
government about cleaning the river. According to Singh, the only way to clean
the river Ganga is to de-pollute Yamuna.
Shiv Sena and Congress
members, in another mention, requested the central government to intervene on
the problem of suicide among farmers. VijayDarda accused the government to abandon the farmers as they fight famine
and snowfall.
VijayDarda said that more than 640,000 farmers rely on rain to
do agriculture in the region. According to the Congress member, the government
waits for God to help farmers surviving under harsh climate.
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