The State Cabinet under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Kamal Nath has taken the decision to sanction an amount of Rs 550.02 crore to the districts for the payment of social security pension.
This amount will be withdrawn from the State level destitute fund account as per monthly requirement and social security pension will be paid.
The Cabinet has approved the Branded Hotel Promotion Policy-2019 to provide continuous grant to attract and encourage the brands for the establishment of hotels, resorts and heritage hotels in the state. The brands have been classified under the category of Brand Hotels,
Brand Resorts and Brand Heritage Hotels, considering the possibilities of projects to be set up in the state.
Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country to form such a policy on the establishment of such brand hotels.
It is estimated that through this policy, at least one thousand luxury and world-class new rooms will be set up in brand hotels in the next 5 years. Under the policy, 20 to 30 per cent subsidy will be given for 3 years on the annual turnover obtained from the rent of hotel rooms on the establishment of new brand hotels with an investment of minimum Rs 100 crore or more. The maximum limit of grant will be Rs 3 crores.
Besides, operating subsidy up to Rs 2 crore will be given to the brand resort and brand heritage hotel for 3 years every year. This grant to the brand hotel will be in addition to the capital grant received by them under the policy.
In order to fulfill the tourism development goals of the state government, the Cabinet has approved the proposed amendment to the tourism policy-2016 so as to make it efficient, practical, comprehensive and suitable for capital investment.
Amendment in the 2016 policy for the establishment and operation of Way-side Amenities was approved in the Cabinet. Under this, Madhya Pradesh Tourism Development Corporation will encourage the establishment of road facilitation centres keeping in mind the need of road network and passenger facilities throughout the state.
Also, potential sites and ready brown-field road facilitation centres will be popularized to create an environment for investment.
The Cabinet has decided to delete the Clause 5.4 of the Housing and Habitat Policy 2007.
In this, there was a provision to keep an area of two hectares of land or plot for land development in the areas of investment.
For this reason, due to the requirement of minimum two hectares of land, small plots of land used to remain unutilized. Continued development was also being hampered as the chances for developing illegal colonies increased in such areas.