Tuesday, August 11, 2015

Haryana CM announces new industrial policy

CHANDIGARH, AUG 11
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal today announced Haryana’s new Industrial Policy known as ‘Enterprises Promotion Policy 2015’ which envisages ease of doing business, enhancing competitiveness of the industry, laying special focus on manufacturing and services enterprises, especially balanced regional growth and MSMEs.
The Chief Minister said that the new Policy approved by the State Cabinet which met under his chairmanship here today aims at attracting investment of over Rs one lakh crore, create four lakh jobs and accelerate economic growth to eight per cent plus.
He said that the new Policy will catalyse Haryana’s position as a pre-eminent investment destination and facilitate balanced regional and sustainable development supported by a dynamic governance system and wide scale adoption of innovation and technology. It will also lay emphasis on skill development for nurturing entrepreneurship and generating employment opportunities.
He said that the new Policy would make doing business NIRBAADH that is hassle free through a new industrial regime by automatic approval and decentralization in Haryana.
There would be a two tier system for project clearances. A Haryana Enterprise Promotion Board (HEPB) will be created. The Board will have a Governing Council headed by Chief Minister for overseeing time bound clearances, sanctioning special packages for mega projects and clearing further policy initiatives. The Council would comprise of Finance Minister/Industries Minister, Tourism Minister, Public Works Minister, Labour Minister, Environment and Forests Minister and the Chief Secretary. Projects with investment of more than Rs 10 crore and involving CLU cases of more than one acre land will be cleared by the Empowered Executive Committee under PSCM. Projects with investment up to Rs. 10 crore and CLU cases up-to one acre in conforming zones will be cleared by District Level Clearance Committee headed by Deputy Commissioner.
A system of online clearances will be put in place by creating an e-biz Haryana portal starting from October 1,2015. Eighty-five services under Right to Service(s) Act have been notified under the revised Industrial Promotion Act for making a provision of deemed clearances and 36 services are proposed to be notified. The government has identified 68 most critical services for industries which will go online on eBiz portal by December 31,2015.
He said that a FINE (Financial Incentives and No Enhancements) Scheme would make industries competitive wherein steps would be taken to reduce cost of doing business. No enhancement will be charged to allottees of HSIIDC within case of allotments to be made in future.
The fiscal incentives would include VAT Refund, Stamp duty refund, Interest subvention, power tariff rebate, etc. amounting to Rs.1000 crore and Rs.1000 crore fund for collateral free loans for MSMEs.
Incentives amounting to about Rs. 1000 crore have been proposed for both Large and Medium and MSME Units and for thrust areas or focus sectors, rural functional clusters, defense/ aerospace/ railway sectors and extremely backward blocks (D-category) in particular.
A Special Infrastructure Fund (SIF) of about Rs. 100 crore will be created for provision of last mile road/water and power connectivity as decided by HEPB especially for Mega Projects and Clusters in D Category Blocks, projects in Aerospace/Defence/Electronics manufacturing and clusters under Thrust Areas and Rural Functional Clusters or any other areas/sectors as decided by HEPB.
There will be Employment Generation Subsidy of Rs. 36,000 per annum for Scheduled Castes and Women and Rs. 30,000 per year for General category for 5 years for capacity building of persons belonging to Haryana.
The State Government will set up a Skill Development University in collaboration with Union Ministry of Skill Development, Skill Development programs through identified training providers using existing infrastructure of Ms/Government Institutes on nominal lease with minimum 70 per cent placement guarantee. The new policy proposes creation of Innovation Campus at cost of Rs. 4 crore and operational expenditure support of Rs. 1 crore for three years along with creation of additional 7 incubation centers at the cost of Rs. 30 lakh each in 7 universities in Haryana.
The new policy proposes to set up Application Development Center with initial capital expenditure of Rs. 4 crore and operational expenditure support of Rs. 1 crore for three years.
Rural BPOs centers will be set up in University towns like Rohtak, Hisar, Kurukshetra, Sonipat and Sirsa where appropriate skill development training will also be provided to rural/ urban youth.
The new policy envisages to connect 6000 villages with a broadband speed of 100 mbps with 99.9 per cent reliability.
The State has been divided into four categories of Development Blocks viz. A, B, C and D for incentive support. There will be mapping of the district based on MoMSME survey to identify the potential of each district and to encourage local entrepreneurs to jointly establish or cooperative society in each district to set up manufacturing units. There will be Global Economic Corridor along KMP for theme clusters- Tourism, Entertainment and Industrial etc. There will be mega projects like Global City in Gurgaon, MRTS and IMLH. Special incentive will be given for creation of mega projects or mother units in aerospace/defence sectors/railway and ESDM sector. These schemes will lead to balanced regional growth under the banner of VISTAR (VAT Interest Stamp Duty Assistance and Rating).

Special focus will be laid on the MSME Sector to leverage the Make in India drive of Government of India. Developed sheds/flatted factories in Industrial Estates for MSMEs on Panchayat lands on lease basis will be given. There will be creation of a Rs. 1000 crore fund under CGTMSE Scheme of Government of India for collateral free loans, Tool rooms/Technology Development Centres, revamped Quality Marking Centres as quality Certification and Skill development centers, etc. there will be special focus on Traditional Clusters, Rural Functional Clusters and Thrust /Focus Clusters.

There will be power tariff subsidy at a rate of Rs two per unit only for Micro and Small Enterprise in 'C' and 'D' Category blocks for 3 years from the date of release of electricity connection. Under a special scheme PRANETA (Professionals And New Entrepreneurs Tax Assistance) for start-up enterprises by first generation professionally and technically qualified youth' (CA/ MBA/ B.Tech./ M.Tech. etc.) with five year work experience, no state taxes will be levied up-to a turnover of Rs. 3 crore or three years whichever is earlier. Flatted factory complexes of HSI IDC will provide built up space on hire-purchase/leasehold basis to such entrepreneurs. Panchayat land wherever available will also be made available on long term lease for such entrepreneurs and industrial units located in Rural Functional Clusters.

He said that a high profile Economic Advisory Council would be set up under the chairmanship of Chief Minister to harness the intellectual capital in the State on policy matters and other issues of overall economic development of the State. Also, there will be policy monitoring mechanism as there will be committee under Principal Secretary, Industries to monitor policy implementation.
There will be three tier Grievance Redressal Committees. The District Level Committee will be at the level of Deputy Commissioner to meet once in a month. The Administrative Secretary Level Committee headed by Principal Secretary, Industries will meet once in two months. There will also be Haryana Enterprise Promotion Board.
There will be Bureau of Industrial Promotion for Policy outreach, investment promotion, road shows, summits, inter Government interface, FDI, NRI issues etc. The Enterprise Assistance Group will be set up to provide all necessary support to the Industry particularly the MSMEs, with professional staff for identifying triggers and making corrective action plan.
A Special Purpose Vehicle would be formed for DMIC Projects. It will be headed by Executive Chairpersons and professional CEOs with Board comprising representatives of Government of India, Government of Haryana and Financial Institutions.
For the benefit of existing industrial units and to minimize pending litigations, all the departments especially Excise and Taxation, Industries, Labour, Environment, Power etc. will bring out of court settlement schemes within a period of three months.
All the Policy proposals will have to be notified by concerned department in one month from the date of release of this policy.
All the new Schemes proposed in Policy will have to be formulated with on a time frame of three months from the date of release of this policy. On-line platform for project clearances will go online by December 31, 2015. Under the Saur Urja Nivesh, Solar Parks will be set up by HSIIDC and Power Utilities on Panchayat lands. The power generated by them will be purchased by the Utilities.
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