‘One block, one product’ scheme to be launched

Chandigarh, July 17

To encourage and promote small industries in the rural areas, the state government will soon introduce the “One Block, One Product” scheme, Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala said on Saturday.

Under the scheme, the state government plans to connect every block of the state with some industrial vision and the government is working expeditiously on this scheme, he added.

The Deputy Chief Minister said that in the last one year, the state’s “One District, One Product” scheme which is being implemented under the MSME, has come up as a model across the country.

“Moreover, it has been adopted by the Central Government in its budget as well,” he said in a statement here.

While promoting this scheme further, he said that the state government would take it up at the block level in rural areas as well.

Dushyant said the state government was planning to introduce “One Block, One Product” in 137 blocks, wherein arrangements for common services, lab testing, packaging, transportation, accountancy will be set up in the cluster itself. — TNS