gurgaon a day after launching several prominent industry projects in rohtak the haryana chief minister bhupinder singh hooda on tuesday said that he would soon lay the foundation stones of at least a dozen educational institutions at rajiv gandhi education city in sonipat hooda said that education and industrial growth were important for the fast development of the state and the government has been consistently making efforts in this regard he said that the landholding of farmers was getting smaller and therefore it has become necessary for more industries to be set up increasing employment opportunities for youththe education city would come up on 1500 acres in sonipat along nh1 some 40km from the national capital the chief minister said that the education city will have topclass infrastructure and support services to attract reputed educational institutes to open their campuses in sonipatalready the state government has allocated land to over a dozen institutes and universities to start their campus sources said that several more institutions have applied for allotment of land here some of the institutions which have got land include thapar university manav rachna international university international foundation for research and education birla institute of management technology and fore school of management