Jaipur, Dec 7 (PTI) Rajasthan aims to increase exportsthree-fold by 2022, state Industry Minister Rajpal SinghShekhawat said.
He said the government is going to introduce an exportpromotion policy in one month which will be focused onincreasing the exports three-fold by 2022.
The minister said exports from the state stood at Rs46,000 crore in 2016.
"With the implementation of the export promotion policy,we aim to increase the export to Rs 1.21 lakh crore in theyear 2022 from Rajasthan," the minister told reporters.
He said the government in the last four years has madeefforts to boost investments and economic growth.
He added that close to 60 per cent of the investmentcommitments made during the Resurgent Rajasthan Summit in 2015have been materialised or are under process.
The minister also said the government has prepared adetailed project report for an effluent treatment plant inBhiwadi in Alwar district which will be sent to the Centre forapproval.
"The state government will bear 25 per cent of theproject cost and the Centre will be bear 50 per cent cost.
Rest 25 per cent cost will be borne by a trust ofindustrialists in Bhiwadi," he said. PTI SDAABM.
This is unedited, unformatted feed from the Press Trust of India wire.