Chandigarh (Balwinder Singh): Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini participated in the 11th Governing Council meeting of NITI Aayog held at the Cultural Centre of Rashtrapati Bhavan in New Delhi under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the high-level meeting, Prime Minister Modi emphasized that the goal of a developed India can only be achieved when the Centre and the states work together in the true spirit of Team India, with a particular focus on skill development, employment, entrepreneurship, and human resource development.
Addressing the council, Chief Minister Saini stated that Haryana has prepared its Vision Document-2047 aligned with the national goal of a developed nation. The state aims to contribute more than one trillion dollars to the national economy by 2047 and raise the per capita income of the state to over forty lakh rupees. To support this growth, Saini presented several key demands to the central government, including the inclusion of Haryana in the first phase of fifty industrial parks proposed under the Bhavya Yojana. He also requested a special incentive package to develop Haryana as a semiconductor, data centre, and electronics manufacturing hub, along with central assistance to establish a national-level AI Centre of Excellence and global capability hubs.
Highlighting the state’s educational achievements, the Chief Minister noted that Haryana was the first to implement the National Education Policy 2020. The administration organized over seventeen thousand school readiness fairs to boost school enrollment, and its flagship Super-100 scheme has successfully helped 267 meritorious students secure admission to IITs, NITs, and medical colleges over the past five years. The state has operationalised 250 PM Shri Schools and 218 Model Sanskriti Senior Secondary Schools, alongside establishing 250 Chief Minister Efficiency and Early English schools this year. Furthermore, higher education for women remains a priority, with colleges established within every twenty-kilometre radius, bringing the total number of women’s colleges to 61.
In terms of skill development and employment, the Chief Minister announced that Haryana leads the country in the implementation of the National Apprenticeship Programme, training 1,520 youth per lakh population, an achievement that earned the state the Champions of Change Award. The state has also converted twenty percent of its ITI seats into the Dual System of Training schema, which currently trains around eleven thousand students and boasts a placement rate exceeding seventy percent. On the industrial front, the state recently launched its Make in Haryana Industrial Policy 2026 along with nine sectoral policies, aiming to attract five lakh crore rupees in investment and generate one million new jobs over the next five years.
Saini also positioned Haryana as a sporting powerhouse, revealing that all eighteen wrestlers selected for the Indian wrestling team at the Asian Games 2026 hail from Haryana. He added that the state is actively preparing for the 2036 Olympics through its dedicated Mission Olympic-2036 Vijayee Bhava scheme to nurture athletic talent from a young age.
