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Business News/ Politics / News/  Badal gets Centre’s nod for freight corridor, IIM, IIT
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Badal gets Centre’s nod for freight corridor, IIM, IIT

Badal gets Centre’s nod for freight corridor, IIM, IIT

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Chandigarh: The Centre has agreed to link Mumbai and Amritsar through a freight corridor to boost domestic and international freight activities.

The Centre’s decision to this effect was conveyed to Punjab CM Parkash Singh Badal when he called on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at New Delhi last evening, an official spokesman said on 27 December.

A formal clearance in this regard is expected in January, media advisor to CM Harcharan Bains said. The Centre had earlier proposed a freight corridor up to Ludhiana but Punjab had urged on taking it to the Indo-Pak border.

The Prime Minister assured Badal that Punjab’s case for setting up of Indian Institute of Technology, Indian Institute of Management and Indian Institute of Information Technology would also be considered on priority basis, he added.

The Centre had also agreed to set up a Manufacturing Investment Region (MIR) in Punjab to brighten the prospects of trade and commerce in the state, he added.

Badal informed the P M that the setting up of MIR in the state would be instrumental in reviving the sick industries and check the trend of industries shifting to the neighbouring states, which provide special industrial package of liberal concessions and incentives.

Responding to the demands put forth by Badal, the P M assured that he would personally review the position of the different projects and proposals sent by Punjab Government with the Ministries concerned, Bains claimed.

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Published: 27 Dec 2007, 07:06 PM IST
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