Haryana Govt revises land allotment policy

The Haryana Government has revised the existing allotment policy with immediate effect, in order to bring more transparency in the procedure for allotment of industrial plots or sheds in various Industrial Model Townships (IMTs) or Industrial Estates of Haryana State Industrial and Infrastructure Development Corporation (HSIIDC).

A spokesman said that the revised policy or procedure for allotment of industrial plots or sheds has criteria for evaluation of applications received.

He said that the guidelines for evaluation of applications by the committee constituted for this purpose are that the proposed project should be falling in the category of permissible activities, should not involve high pollution, high water consumption and the project parameters should be matching with the infrastructure facilities of the particular industrial estate; where the applicant or its promoters are already having industrial plots in HSIIDC Industrial estate and the plot is lying vacant or project is yet to be implemented, the requirement of additional land must be justified by the applicant and where the applicant or promoters are in default towards payment of dues of the Corporation in respect of existing allotted plots, the same shall be required to be cleared before issuance of Regular letter of Allotment.

He said that each sector or phase of the Industrial Estate would be declared as saturated after 90 per cent of the area of carved out industrial plots has been allotted. The Industrial Plot Allotment Committee would comprise of Managing Director /HSIIDC, Managing Director /HFC, DI/Haryana and Managing Director/HARTRON. Senior most members would act as Chairman of the Committee.

The spokesman said that the Higher level Plot Allotment Committee would comprise of Administrative Secretary of the Industries Department, MD/HSIIDC. MD/ HFC and DI/Haryana. Administrative Secretary of the Industries Department would be chairman of the Committee. All the applications received for allotment of industrial plots under general and reserved category (NRI/FDI/persons with disability) would be evaluated against the approved evaluation criteria by In-house Committee of Senior officers of the Corporation, whose recommendations would be put up to the Industrial Plot Allotment Committee for approval.

He said that under general category allotment, the Corporation would invite applications for allotment of industrial plots of various sizes and one month period would be given for submission of applications. The process of allotment of industrial plots, in respect of applications received in a particular month would be finalized in the next two months. The number of plots against which applications are to be invited would be decided by MD/HSIIDC.

He said that in case the number of qualifying applications after evaluation is found to be less than the number of plots offered for allotment, the allotment would be made by the Industrial Plot Allotment Committee. In case, the number of qualifying applications after evaluation is more than the number of plots offered for allotment, the allotment would be made through limited e-auction. The spokesman said that under reserved categories (NRI/FDI/persons with disability), 10 per cent of the industrial plots would be reserved for allotment to NRI/FDI cases and 2 per cent for persons with disability category in unsaturated estate or sector or phase. The qualifying applications after evaluation would be considered for allotment by the Industrial Plot Allotment Committee.

He said that under Prestigious Projects category, the threshold limit for Prestigious Projects category would be fixed capital investment (land, Building, Plant and machinery and misc, fixed assets) of `50 crore, `40 crore and `30 crore for category A, B and C estates, respectively.