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| Guv suggests sustainable model to ease development process |
| Virendra Singh Rawat / Lucknow Aug 31, 2010, 01:25 IST |
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Advocating the need for a sustainable development model, Uttar Pradesh Governor B L Joshi today laid emphasis on finding solutions to challenges to the path of development, including land acquisition, so that protests could be minimised.
He also noted that the development process was ridden with challenges such as land acquisition, technological and capital issues.
He was delivering the keynote address at Samriddhi, the Business Standard roundtable here. The topic was ‘Uttar Pradesh: The Development Agenda’, the second such event in Lucknow .
The governor’s observations gain significance in the light of recent developments over land acquisition for infrastructure and development projects all over the country provoking vociferous protests from farmers and tribal land owners over issues of displacement, loss of livelihood and compensation.
“Tax relief was able to attract industries to some states, however they could not ensure sustainable development. Therefore, such factors need to be explored, which facilitate a development model that is durable,” he added.
The governor also stressed the need for evolving a mechanism for inter-state cooperation for easy movement of goods and raw materials between different states.
Joshi said every state had its distinct identity and strength, which needed to be identified, so that they could be exploited for economic progress.
Applauding the role of the Roundtable and similar deliberations by industry on issues of development, he suggested mere discussions would not serve any purpose, and the state needed to draw tangible conclusions for turning these into action.
Observing that boundaries should not be set for discussions, he called upon state government officials to make good use of the forum for preparing a more development-oriented economic model.
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