Dehradun: Industry body Assocham on Saturday urged the Uttarakhand government to form a special investment monitoring task force to ensure timely and effective implementation of projects worth over Rs 2 lakh crore.
"Speeding up implementation of projects through target setting must be the mandate and the chief minister should immediately constitute a committee of senior ministers and bureaucrats to oversee pace of projects' implementation and address environmental, land acquisition and other related issues," Assocham Secretary General D S Rawat said while addressing a press conference here.
"The state should accord more importance to implementing investment intentions as even if about half of these get implemented, it would help create 30,000 direct and indirect jobs across the state in the next five years," Rawat further said.
He also released an Assocham study titled 'Uttarakhand: Economic Growth and Investment Performance Analysis'.