Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on Monday met Ambassador of Israel to India, Naor Gilon, to discuss possibilities to strengthen collaboration in research, education, health services, aeronautics field.
During the meeting, Naor Gilon not only lauded Haryana for successfully running four excellence centres at various places across the State but also said that Israel will set up many such projects in the future in different States of India and most of the projects will be in Haryana as the State’s production capacity, efficiency and atmosphere are favourable.
“Out of the total 80 per cent investment done by Israel in India, around 50 per cent is invested in Haryana. Now Israel aims to explore more investment possibilities in Haryana in sectors other than agriculture. Now, we are moving towards setting up
Village of Excellence in Haryana,” said Gilon.
He held extensive discussions with the Chief Minister identifying various development avenues between Haryana and Israel. He especially sought cooperation from the Haryana Government in exploring investment possibilities in telemedicine, since Israel is very strong in this sector.
The Chief Minister said as almost 50 per cent of the land is less productive hence possibilities to promote fisheries business can be explored. Micro-irrigation can be another area of investment, he said.
“Haryana has taken water management and initiated separate programmes by linking or developing micro-irrigation, water farm pond, village ponds, and canal irrigated led programmes at a community level. So, Israel may explore technical collaboration in this field,” Khattar said.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister while evincing keen interest in the Ambu bike, an ambulance-equipped two-wheeler service operational in Jerusalem directed the officers concerned to explore possibilities of tie-ups with the NGO running the service and invite them to visit Haryana.
He said out of various models of business like B2B; G2G, B2G etc, we believe in the H2H model of working that is ‘Heart to Heart’ approach of collaboration.
Earlier, Agriculture and Farmers’ Welfare Minister, JP Dalal informed that Haryana is a landlocked state but has developed inland fish culture, established more than 2,000 fish water ponds. We expect Haryana to be one of the biggest producers of prawns, hence possibilities can be explored in setting up a center of modern fish culture technologies in the State, he said.
“Israel has developed better technologies for dry land horticulture; therefore, we do expect that Israel will develop the best dryland Horticulture Centre at Gignow, Bhiwani,” Dalal added.
