{"id":2095,"date":"2017-08-15T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=2095"},"modified":"2017-08-15T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T12:22:16","slug":"harsimratgovt-ignoring-food-processing-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/harsimratgovt-ignoring-food-processing-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Harsimrat:Govt ignoring food processing projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sangrur, -Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today alleged that the state government was not responding to her letters regarding setting up industry in the state with her<\/p>\n<p>ministry\u2019s help.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy ministry usually receives numerous applications from other states for new projects, but my own state\u2019s farmers and industrialists are hardly applying. Their presence is negligible as the<\/p>\n<p>Congress government is not spreading awareness about our projects and incentives,\u201d Harsimrat said after attending a seminar organised by her ministry here.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf the Rs 6,000-crore projects, I want to give the maximum to my state. But the Chief Minister, Finance Minister and the bureaucrats are not taking my letters seriously due to political reasons.<\/p>\n<p>Participants from all over the world are keen to attend World Food India-2017 in November, but Punjab has not applied yet despite my repeated reminders,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She said PAU officials were misleading the CM by claiming that the crop losses were meagre. She demanded action against Vikas Barala, main accused in the Chandigarh stalking and<\/p>\n<p>abduction bid case, but didn\u2019t reply when asked whether Vikas\u2019 father, Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala, should resign.<\/p>\n<p>Former Finance Minister Parminder Singh Dhindsa and other SAD leaders were present at the seminar. No Congress leader attended the event, even as district party president Raja Beerkalan<\/p>\n<p>said they were not invited as SAD leaders didn\u2019t want their participation in Central Government functions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sangrur, -Union Food Processing Industries Minister Harsimrat Kaur Badal today alleged that the state government was not responding to her letters regarding setting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-punjab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2097,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2095\/revisions\/2097"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}