CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu on Monday vowed to usher in second green revolution in the state, besides promising to launch the next generation of reforms to promote rapid growth in manufacturing sector. Addressing the National Executive Committee Meeting of Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) here, Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa said that her government had planned to take up several measures to achieve the ‘Second Green Revolution’ by increasing agricultural productivity. Unveiling her dream of making Tamil Nadu the number one state in India, she wooed global players to invest in automobiles, electronic hardware, agro-processing, textiles, pharmaceuticals, chemicals/ petrochemicals and leather/footwear sectors.Quoting French poet Anatole France’s lines of ‘Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream’, she said, “I dream of making Tamil Nadu the best state in the country. The process will be outlined in our soon to be released ‘Vision 2025’ document.”Highlighting that industry could not march ahead unless there was robust all-round growth in primary sector, particularly agriculture, she said that the government had chalked out a new strategy for a rapid growth in the primary sector to achieve four per cent growth in this sector.“We will achieve this through effective dissemination and adoption of advanced technology to increase productivity of crops, farm-based intervention for mixed farming and by convergence of schemes to ensure integrated farm development,” Jayalalithaa said.Stressing the need to develop infrastructure to achieve the number one position, the Chief Minister invited public-private partnerships and said the newly constituted Infrastructure Development Board, under her leadership, would create a congenial environment for facilitating speedy implementation of critical infrastructure projects that would drive the growth of primary, secondary and tertiary sectors. The Chief Minister also vowed that there would be no shortage of skilled manpower in the state and the government would ensure that students from deprived sections did not suffer from non-availability of uniforms, textbooks, shoes, geometry boxes and laptop computers. She also tried to assure the corporate sector that the state was taking efforts on a war-footing to improve the power situation by making it a power surplus state again. “My government has planned to undertake a massive capacity addition of 23,140 MW of power to the existing installed capacity of 10,237 MW during the next five years,” the Chief Minister added.
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