Committee set up on bulk drugs park

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, September 17

Punjab will bid for setting up a bulk drugs park in Bathinda as part of the newly launched Central Government scheme for establishment of three such parks in the country.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers, chaired by Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh today, gave an in-principle approval to it.

The meeting decided to constitute a Cabinet sub-committee to work out the details of the proposal, to be made to the Government of India, which has laid down the criteria for the parks, including a minimum land requirement of 1,000 acres.

The sub-committee comprising Finance Minister Manpreet Singh Badal, Industries and Commerce Minister Sunder Sham Arora, Revenue Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar and Housing and Urban Development Minister Sukhbinder Singh Sarkaria, has been mandated to submit its report to the Cabinet over the next few days to enable the state to submit its proposal before the last date of September 27.

The sub-committee would make recommendations to amend the Industrial & Business Development Policy, 2017, for introducing the interest subvention scheme for the bulk drugs park.