Apple market on HMT land soon, says Khattar

Rajinder S Nagarkoti

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, June 20

Haryana Chief Minister, Manohar Lal Khattar, said an ‘Apple Mandi’ is proposed to be set up over 100 acres of vacant land of HMT, Pinjore. The process has already started for the transfer of about 446 acres of land of shut tractor unit of the HMT at Pinjore to the state government.

Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar was replying to the question of Lt Gen KJ Singh (retd), who was the Army Commander Western Command, during question-answer session in the Intellectual Meet held at Sector 3, Panchkula, on Wednesday.

On the suggestion of Lt Gen KJ Singh (retd), who suggested for setting up a defence manufacturing unit in Haryana, especially on the HMT land, the CM said as the Union Defence Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman has agreed to set up a defence manufacturing unit in Haryana. He further said the efforts would be made to open the unit on the remaining vacant land of HMT Pinjore.

Backs use of Hindi in court judgments.

On the use of Hindi language in courts, he said a consensus has been reached as per which translated version of judgment in Hindi language would be made available to the people so that they could easily understand the same. The translators would be provided by the State Government but the final decision in this regard will be taken by the Judiciary, he added.

Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar also said the state government has successfully cracked the vicious circle of corruption prevailing from top to bottom in previous regimes with the introduction of e-governance. The people of the state have accepted the present government as a corruption-free government, he added. He said it was a tough task to keep a check on the corruption but after taking the reign of the state, we resolved to root out corruption from all levels and started from our own ministers and MLAs by administering them pledge that they would not indulge in any corrupt practices.

Foundation stone laid

Earlier in the day, the CM also laid the foundation stone of Haryana Rozgar Bhawan in Sector 14 and inaugurated the newly-constructed State Polytechnic in Kalka