Days after Punjabs industrialists and businessmen reportedly signed agreements with the Uttar Pradesh Government in the wake of deteriorating law and order situation in Punjab, Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Friday claimed that the state firmed up Rs 30,000 crore investment in the past nine months due to his Governments pro-industry environment and ease of doing business policies.

Referring to the recent meetings with industrialists in Hyderabad, Mann said that the entrepreneurs, associated with Food Processing and Agriculture-notes-for-state-psc-exams”>Agriculture, have shown keen interest in investing in Punjab, which will further strengthen the states Industrial Sector.

Notably, Punjab-based industrialists, mostly from Ludhiana, have met the Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath early this week, and reportedly singed the agreements of Rs 2.30 thousand crores. Following a spate in crime incidents, related to threat calls for ransom from gangsters and shootouts, the states businessmen and traders have started believing that they were no more safe in Punjab”.