By Our Correspondent
NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: The Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Som Parkash, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha on Friday said that the Central Government is working on setting up a Single Window System for clearances and approvals of industry in the country.
Despite the presence of several IT platforms for investing in India such as in departments of the Government of India and State Single Window Clearances, investors need to visit multiple platforms to gather information and obtain clearances from different stakeholders. To address this, the creation of a centralized Investment Clearance Cell which would provide end-to-end facilitation support, including pre-investment advisory, information related to land banks and facilitating clearances at Central and State level was proposed and the same is also a Budget Announcement 2020-21.
The cell is being planned as a One-stop digital platform to obtain all requisite central and state clearances/ approvals required to start business operations in India. The Investment Clearance Cell will be a National portal that integrates the existing clearance systems of the various Ministries/ Departments of Govt. of India and of State Governments without disruption to the existing IT portals of Ministries and will have a single, unified application form. This will eliminate the need for investors to visit multiple platforms/ offices to gather information and obtain clearances from different stakeholders and provide time-bound approvals and real time status update to investors.
Industrial Park Scheme-2002, applicable for any undertaking which develops and operates, or, maintains and operates, an Industrial Park for the period beginning 1st day of April, 1997 and ending 31st day of March, 2006, was notified by the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade on 1st April, 2002. As many as 129 Industrial Parks in Odisha,
as on 1st Feb, 2021) entered on Industrial Information System (IIS), the Minister said.
Data on Industrial Parks that have been established and functional in different States of the country during the last three years is not centrally maintained. However, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade has built one centralized system of industrial park information which is available at Industrial Information System (IIS) and the details are being updated by the concerned States at regular intervals. A list of States/UT-wise number of Industrial Parks/Estates/Clusters/Nodes entered on Industrial Information System (IIS) is at Annexure. Industrial park information is also available in the link ‘Industrial Information System” on the website of DPIIT (dipp.gov.in)
During the last three years, Department for Promotion of Industry & InternalTrade has accorded final approval for setting up of one National Investment & Manufacturing Zone (NIMZ) namely Hyderabad Pharma City NIMZ in Rangareddy district of Telangana.
Setting up of Industrial Park and Industries in different States comes under the purview of the concerned State Government itself. However, Central Government provides support to the States through its scheme/programmes, once the proposal to develop the parks/clusters/industries in a particular region is received from the concerned State Government.
