An "Education City" is coming up at Kundli in Haryana to provide world-class education in various disciplines like Biotechnology, Nanotechnology and Information technology.
Designed to serve as a Centre of Excellence, the Rajiv Gandhi Education City would be first of its kind in the country, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said.
The six-month-old Hooda government had increased the plan provision for education by more than 50 per cent.
As part of a special drive to bring all children in the 6-11 age group to the primary schools, a new scheme called "Rajiv Gandhi Scholarships for excellence in education" had been launched to reward 50,000 brilliant students in government schools.
The Chief Minister said his government had set an ambitious target of one million jobs with an investment of Rs. 2,00,000 crore during the next ten years. Investment worth Rs 7000 crore catalysed during the last six months.
An Overseas Employment Bureau was being set up for facilitating placement.
Three new industrial modern townships of international standard, Special Economic Zones, Industrial clusters, IT Parks and Food Technology parks were proposed along the proposed Western Periphery Expressway (Kundli-Manesar-Palwal).
Touching upon issues involving the Centre, Mr Hoonda said the Union Government should make specific budget provisions for the development of the National Capital Region (NCR). The Centre should give budgetary support for modernisation of police force in the entire NCR at par with the National Capital Territory.
Suggesting that the Centre should encourage better performing States like Haryana instead of penalising them, the Chief Minister said norms should be changed to give more funds for upgradation of rural roads in Haryana under Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana.
He said he had sought inclusion of three more districts - Jhajjar, Mewat and Rewari - in the National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, in addition to the district of Mahendragarh which was only one covered at present.
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