The disproportionate assets of the State Government officers and employees will be seized under the ‘Chhattisgarh Special Courts Act -2015’ and its Bill will be passed in the coming session of Chhattisgarh Assembly. There will be ‘zero tolerance’ for corruption and the corrupt will be dealt with sternly.
A decision to this effect was taken in the Cabinet meeting chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh here on Wednesday in which a host of other major decisions were also taken. The Chief Minister said that the cases related to corruption will be disposed off within one year. The disproportionate assets will be announced and the concerned party cannot appeal in the court of law.
There is a provision to establish separate courts to handle graft cases. The disproportionate assets will be seized. Singh said the Cabinet passed the Electronics IT and ITeS investment policy for year 2014-19 and ‘Chhattisgarh Right of Way policy 2015’. There were several changes made in the Electronics IT and ITeS.
He said that ‘Single Window Clearance’ will be provided. Several incentives will be given like subsidy, capital investment, land premium and electricity charges. There will be subsidy on electricity charges till the end of 12 years.
The investors will be given an additional subsidy of 5 per cent if there are more than 50 per cent employees from the State. The proposed policy is far better than most other States, Singh said. As per the Cabinet decisions, interest subsidy, which was 75 per cent of the interest paid (maximum upto 60 lakh per year for 7 years) has been upgraded to 75 per cent of the interest paid, maximum upto Rs1.1 crore per year for 8 years.
Capital Investment Subsidy, which was 45 per cent, maximum Rs1.4 crore has been revised to 50 per cent, maximum upto Rs1.5 crore. Subsidy on land premium upto 80 per cent will be provided. Further incentives of 5 per cent on Capital Subsidy have also been provisioned, he said.
Interest Subsidy on land premium would be provided to units employing more than 50 per cent workforce of Chhattisgarh domicile, or starting production within year 2015-16.
Keeping the requirements of small and medium enterprise in mind, the policy provides incentives such as 50 pr cent subsidy on lease rent, reimbursement of training cost of IT Professionals upto Rs20,000 per employee and subsidy upto 30 per cent on Bandwidth charges among others. The policy has been framed keeping the requirements of Electronics,IT/ITeS Industry and is the most competitive policy amongst States of India.
In the Cabinet meeting, Singh gave a detailed description of 'Right Of Way policy-2015'. The Union Government is laying the national Optical Fibre network to connect all the village panchayats in five years.
The permission to lay cables has to be taken from Public Works Department, Water Resources, Forest, Agriculture departments and local bodies at present. There will be a single policy for clearance in future. Information Technology Department will be the nodal agency to implement the policy. He said the policy of recruitment of Class-III and Class-IV staff in Surguja and Bastar Revenue divisions from the area will be continued for another two years.