Technology Park opened

"Chandigarh, and the region around it, has the right human resource base to tap this favourable environment and lead the region to a new dawn"

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday called for a second wave of development in Chandigarh, which should be anchored around rapid industrialisation and growth of the services sector.

Inaugurating the first phase of the Rajiv Gandhi Chandigarh Technology Park, Dr. Singh said that the growth of the knowledge economy, the possibilities of outsourcing being opened up by technological developments and the rapid integration of the Indian economy with the global trading system were throwing up enormous opportunities which were waiting to be tapped.

"Chandigarh, and the region around it, has the right human resource base to tap this favourable environment and lead the region to a new dawn. I am certain that the Chandigarh Technology Park will be the turning point in the economic transformation of the region,'' he said.