BATHINDA, April 10 -- Industry minister Sanjeev Arora said on Thursday that the new industrial policy is tailor-made to encourage environment-friendly green industry solutions, such as setting up a paddy straw-based plant, which will attract huge subsidies and encouragement from the government in various forms.

Arora, who was in Bathinda to chair a series of programmes, said the government would grant a subsidy of up to Rs.10 crore for environment-friendly projects, such as zero liquid discharge. Similarly, industries setting up boilers using paddy straw will get incentives up to Rs.7.5 crore.

Interacting with entrepreneurs from Bathinda, Mansa, Barnala, Muktsar, Faridkot and Fazilka, the minister said that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) gov...