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Dimple Yadav's constituency to get modern perfume plant
Lucknow, June 1
If all goes well, a modern perfume manufacturing plant would soon be
set up in Kannauj, the parliamentary constituency of Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple Yadav, officials said on Monday.
Kannauj
is widely known for traditional 'itra'. Perfumes are extracted from
flowers, leaves and even 'mitti' - earth - in Kannauj.
With the
perfume industry there in a slump for the past few years, local traders
have been demanding a revival package from the state government as also
an initiative for marketing the local perfumes.
Chief Minister
Yadav and his wife have just returned from a ten-day visit to France,
where the duo visited many perfume-producing regions and got to know
the modern ways to make and market perfumes across the world. They also
visited Netherlands.
A high-level delegation that accompanied
the chief minister is understood to have interacted with perfume majors
in Paris and tried to impress them with low-cost but high-quality
perfumes produced in Kannauj.
Arun Mehrotra, a local perfume
manufacturer, told IANS that the development was a "welcome one,
provided it is taken to a logical conclusion".
"It's indeed a
good news. However, it is yet to be seen how things roll out. Like in
the past, such pronouncements should not remain merely on files and in
news headlines," he remarked.
Officials at the Chief Minister's
Office said that more than Akhilesh, Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav was
following up on the "action taken on the issue during the French visit".