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To promote ease of doing business in the state, Punjab Government has decided to constitute a Core Group to address issues pertaining to Industries and Housing and Urban Development.
The Group will comprise representatives from departments including Housing and Urban Development (H&UD), Industries and other line departments, said the state Housing and Urban Development Minister Aman Arora, while interacting with the industrialists at Confederation of Indian Industrialists (CII) headquarters on Thursday.
Arora said that the H&UD has been creating a foolproof mechanism which will ensure industrialists get any kind of permission within 45 days. Efforts are also on to make industrial plots easily available to investors, who want to establish industry in the state, he added.
Acknowledging the fact the policy related to industries in Punjab was stringent, Arora said that due to non-compliance during the previous governments, it has failed to attract industries in the state. “Punjab has huge potential to cater industries, which will lead the state towards prosperity. Going one step ahead, the Punjab Government, apart from promoting ease of doing business, will now focus on ease of living too, which would further attract industrialists to choose Punjab as their home state,” he said.
To boost the state’s economy and generate employment opportunities, Arora said that the Government has already delegated powers for approval of building plans and grant of completion certificate of standalone industries including compounding of standalone industries, outside MC Limit, to Director of Factories so that the industrialist need not to apply at two separate departments for getting the Building Plans of their factories approved.
Also listening to the concerns of the industrialists, he ensured to resolve these at the earliest.
Inviting all the industrialists to join the Progressive Punjab Investors' Summit to be organized this February, he said that CII is an institutional partner with Invest Punjab. “All the industrialists should come together to make the mega event a huge success,” he added.