With the aim to attract additional industrial investment in Himachal Pradesh, the state administration has set up a novel estate in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial area in Solan region.

As per official spokesman, the land bank with the state administration has over 8000 Bighas with it and has keyed out extra 2000 bighas of land for big industries in Dabhota.

Around 500 bighas of land has been allotted for setting up information technology and electronic divisions at Kashmirpura Brahmana.

The report added that 934 bighas of land has been marked for establishing a textile and Food Park at Manjholi.

In order to promote micro, small and medium divisions, around 750 bighas of land has been sanctioned at Palasara in Nalagarh.

The report also said that a novel estate of 612 bighas at Davni has been built up within the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial belt.

Moreover, the state administration was distinguishing private as well as government land to lessen stress on land in the subsisting industrial belts,

The report said that this could help in establishing novel industrial units.

To widen power infrastructure in Himachal Pradesh, a MoU has been inked with GAIL (India) for setting up a 65-km long pipeline from Rajpura in Punjab to Baddi for supplying natural gas to different segments including industrial, transport as well as domestic.

As per official figures, the present BJP administration has attracted a substantial investment worth Rs 6,120.92 crore with the commissioning of 2,616 industrial segments being made from December 2007.

But, during the three year period, the administration has given approval to 3,469 industrial plans worth Rs 14,097.63 crore.