‘If the grandfather had 10 acres, the grandson gets half an acre.It’s hard to sustain a family on that. The alternative is industrialisation’

Monday 1 October '07

Haryana, where agriculture has traditionally taken precedence over industry, is now slowly making the shift to industrialisation. In fact, even the little opposition that the Reliance SEZ project has attracted is being seen as politically-driven by one or two dissidents in the ruling Congress. In an interview to The Indian Express Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta on NDTV 24x7’s Walk the Talk, Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda, who comes from a family of farmers, talks about how creating jobs is more important than the farming vs industry debate.