Union Minister of State for Food Processing Industries Sadhvi
Niranjan Jyoti Wednesday inaugurated the 18th Food Park of the country
at Tulakona village of West Tripura and said the central government aims
to set up 22 food parks in India.
Launching an attack on erstwhile CPI (M) led Left Front government,
the Union Minister said the Left government did nothing to develop
industries in Tripura in their 25-year-old rule. She also said that the
food park inaugurated today would provide good infrastructural
facilities for food processing and allied industries along with the
value chain from farm-based market and processing centres.
“The central government granted permission to set up this Park in
2011 along with another food park which was supposed to be set up by
Baba Ramdev. Baba Ramdev has set up three other food parks in the
meantime but this Park could see the light of day only after BJP-IPFT government came to power here,” she said.
Union minister Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti also said that barely two food
parks were set up in India during the Congress-led United Progressive
Alliance (UPA) government’s regime. But after BJP led NDA government
came to power in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged to set up 40 mega food parks in the country, the minister added.
Tripura Mega Food Park inaugurated today was set up by Sikaria Mega
Food Park Private Limited on 50 acres of land. The land was provided by
Tripura Industrial Development Corporation Limited.
Chief Minister Biplab Kumar Deb joined the inaugural event today and
said the Mega Food Park would go a long way in solving unemployment
issues in the state.
“This project will generate fresh employment to nearly 30,000 people
in the primary field of food processing, agriculture, agro-processing
and agri-infrastructure,” he said.
