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The 100-acre Lotus Integrated Tex Park – a project of Abhishek Industries – will finally be inaugurated at Daula village in Barnala district on Monday. The project worth Rs 110 crore was approved in 2003 but protests from farmer bodies over land acquisition delayed the project. With its opening,it will be the second textile park in Punjab after Saluja Enterprises Limited (SEL) in Machiwara,which began operations about 4 years back.
The project will be inaugurated by Union textile minister,K S Rao while Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal will also be present. It is part of four textile parks approved by the Union Government of which the one in Machiwara,Ludhiana,is the only one functioning. Two other textile parks in Doraha are yet to take off.
Farmer bodies,meanwhile,recalled their struggle when land acquisition begain in 2006 under the then Congress government. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal,then in opposition,had promised the farmers to get their land back.
Shingara Singh Mann,president of BKU (ugrahan) said: Badal backtracked from his statement,but he helped farmers in getting 70 per cent more compensation for their land and many other facilities as well,due to which the farmers got allured and hence an agreement was finally reached after a three-year struggle.
The land for the project had been acquired in the villages of Daula,Sangera and Fatehgarh Chana. The textile parks are a 40:60 venture between the Union government and local industrialists respectively.
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