Mohali civic body given control of industrial areas

Tribune News Service

Mohali, August 9

Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC) Ltd today handed over the maintenance and upkeep of Phase VIII-A and VIII-B of Industrial Area here to the Municipal Corporation.

Addressing the gathering, Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora termed this development as an essential need, and added that the MC had sufficient funds for the maintenance and upkeep of these industrial areas. Exhorting officials of the MC to take this as a challenge, Arora said Mohali was becoming a hub of industrial activities and if they could provide basic infrastructure at the earliest, then the city had the potential to earn the distinction of becoming a major industrial town of the state.

Cabinet minister and local MLA Balbir Singh Sidhu said this was the need of the hour as these industrial areas needed to be revamped in respect of infrastructure. Citing a sorry state of affairs in these areas, he expressed confidence that the MC would now be able to transform these areas in a big way and develop these into a model industrial area. Demanding more funds from the Industries and Commerce Minister to revamp the infrastructure in Mohali, Sidhu said he had no political legacy. “Our political roots go deep into people. The people of the constituency are like a family to us,” he added.