Finally, construction of RCC road for focal points gets under way

Ludhiana: In what can be considered good news for hundreds of businessmen having their factories in focal points, which are the designated industrial areas in the city, the work of construction of RCC roads in Focal Point, Phase VI and VIII got started on Tuesday.
The work was inaugurated by the chairman of Punjab Small Industries and Export Corporation (PSIEC) Gurpreet Gogi. A huge number of businessmen and other office-bearers of various boards, including Pawan Dewan, chairman of Punjab Large Industrial Development Board, and K K Bawa, chairman, Punjab State Industrial Development Corporation, were also present on this occasion.
Rs 40 crore had been llotted by the state government for the construction of 21km of roads in focal points. Giving more information Upkar, Singh Ahuja, president of the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings (CICU), said, “CICU is the only organisation, which has been following up the matter of development of Focal Point’s infrastructure for a very long time with the state and central government by regularly sending memorandums and requests. Various meetings too have been organised with the officials regarding this matter. Finally, all our efforts have paid off and now our dreams have come true of having good infrastructure in the focal points, at least in terms of roads.”
According to Pankaj Sharma, general secretary of CICU, “We are thankful to chief minister Amarinder Singh and industry minister Sham Sunder Arora for granting Rs 40 crore for development of the focal point roads. PSIEC chairman Gurpreet Gogi too has done a commendable job by pursuing this matter constantly for the past few months and succeeding in getting the work of roads started in the focal point areas.”
Meanwhile, Gogi, Pawan Dewan, and K K Bawa congratulated the businessmen and said that after the work of roads of the focal points, work on other infrastructure like streetlights and parks too will start soon and all pending problems of businessmen will be solved. Prominent businessmen, including OP Bassi, Rajnish Ahuja, Anil Bedi and Rajiv Sharma were also present on this occasion.