CHANDIGARH, MAY 8
As many as 56 investors have already registered themselves on the investor-friendly Composite Application Form (CAF) which has been fully developed and is accessible on the e-Biz portal at investharyana.nic.in. Applications received on the portal are being forwarded to 18 departments through online mechanism without any physical touch point.
This and several other innovative steps taken to promote investment in state were disclosed at the state level stake holders' sensitisation workshop on ‘New initiatives on ease of doing business in Haryana’ in Gurgaon today which was presided over by the Chief Minister, Mr Manohar Lal. The workshop was conducted to apprise the field officials of the new initiatives and to propagate them at the ground level. Industry should experience these initiatives and provide feedback for further reforms.
Several new initiatives have been taken to promote investment in the state. After taking feedback from industrialists, some changes have been made in the Enterprises Promotion Policy-2015. As many as 119 industrial services have been brought within the ambit of the Haryana Right to Service Act, 2014, for which a time-frame has been fixed for giving clearances. If it is not given, the clearance will be deemed and no clearance will remain pending beyond the RTS provision.
The feature of ‘Know Your Clearances’ is also available on e-Biz portal for knowing the approvals applicable to the project. Moreover, 16 services of project initiation have been made online.
Addressing the workshop, the Chief Minister disclosed that 522 MoUs had been signed for setting up various industrial units in the state. As many as 359 MoUs were signed at the Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit which was a grand success. But afterwards, more MoUs more were inked taking the aggregate to 522. Out of 359 MoUs, 121 were for less than Rs 10 crore each, for which clearances can be given by the Deputy Commissioner at the district level itself.
The Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit was a grand success and we were able to attract investors but that momentum needs to be carried further. As many as 36 Relationship Managers have been appointed for investors to help them in getting all clearances from government departments in a time-bound manner, he said.
The Chief Minister said that post-Happening Haryana Summit, a series of interventions had been made by the state government to provide conducive business climate to the investors. Many path-breaking decisions have been taken which need to be percolate down from the headquarters to the district level. Everybody should know about the new interventions and these should be put in public domain.
With a view to facilitating prospective investors in Haryana, District Level Clearance Committees (DLCC) have been constituted under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner to provide clearances for projects involving investment of up to Rs 10 crore or involving Change of Land Use (CLU) requirement of up to 1 acre.
Mr Manohar Lal said that dates of DLCC would be put on the website of the district and also publicised in newspapers to make everybody aware. On the same day, a meeting of the Empowered Executive Committee (EEC) would be held at the headquarters level. Two meetings of DLCC and EEC will be held in a month for redress of grievances of industrialists. For this month, the meetings have been fixed on May 11 and on May 31. The complaints can also be made online.
The Chief Minister stressed the need for speedy redressal of grievances and said that E-Biz portal had been launched for online business clearances. The investors can register on this portal www.investharyana.nic.
A single-roof mechanism has been put in place to provide time-bound clearances. When the present BJP Government came to power Haryana ranked at fourteenth position in terms of ease of doing business. Now with collective efforts of all officers of line departments and political leaders, the state government intends to place Haryana in the bracket of top five states in the country, the Chief Minister said.
India has competitive federalism in which all states compete among themselves to attract investors and thereby contribute to the development of the country. "In this endeavour, Haryana also want to grow its economy and provide employment opportunities to the youth. We want to contribute maximum in the country’s progress," Mr Manohar Lal added.
Earlier, detailing the new initiatives taken to promote investment and make ease of doing business easier still, Mr Sudhir Rajpal, MD, HSIIDC, said that grievance handling at the district level was being made functional on monthly basis. Officials are required to strictly abide by the new procedures for inspections of industrial premises and change in attitude from ‘regulator’ to ‘facilitator’ is needed. There is three-tiered mechanism for monitoring grievances redressal.
"Our initiatives became so popular that delegations form Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and some other states came here to know about these initiatives. Such steps were being taken only in Haryana, Punjab and Telangana in the entire country," Mr Rajpal added.
Senior officers of line departments also gave presentations related to their respective departments in which they talked about how the department is going to handhold investors and facilitate them.
The Haryana Industries Minister Capt Abhimanyu, PWD (B&R) Minister Rao Narbir Singh, MLA Sohna Mr. Tejpal Tanwar, MLA Gurgaon Mr. Umesh Aggarwal, Chief Secretary Mr. D S Dhesi, Additional Chief Secretary, Revenue, Mrs. Keshni Anand Arora and Deputy Commissioners of various districts were also present at the workshop.
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