Haryana Chief Minister Manohar lal on Sunday said that post-Happening Haryana Summit, a series of interventions had been made by the State Government to provide conducive business climate to the investors.
“Many path-breaking decisions have been taken which need to be percolate down from the headquarters to the district level. Everybody should know about the new interventions and these should be put in public domain,” said Manohar lal while presiding over the state level stake holders’ sensitisation workshop on ‘New initiatives on ease of doing business in Haryana’ in Gurgaon.
With a view to facilitating prospective investors in Haryana, District level Clearance Committees (DlCC) have been constituted under the chairmanship of deputy commissioner to provide clearances for projects involving investment of up to Rs 10 crore or involving Change of land Use (ClU) requirement of up to 1 acre, said he.
As many as 56 investors have registered themselves on the investor-friendly Composite Application Form (CAF) which has been fully developed and is accessible on the e-Biz portal at investharyana.nic.in. Applications received on the portal are being forwarded to 18 departments through online mechanism without any physical touch point.
This and several other innovative steps taken to promote investment in state were disclosed at the state level stake holders’ sensitisation workshop. The workshop was conducted to apprise the field officials of the new initiatives and to propagate them at the ground level.
As many as 119 industrial services have been brought within the ambit of the Haryana Right to Service Act, 2014, for which a time-frame has been fixed for giving clearances. If it is not given, the clearance will be deemed and no clearance will remain pending beyond the RTS provision.
The feature of ‘Know Your Clearances’ is also available on e-Biz portal for knowing the approvals applicable to the project. Moreover, 16 services of project initiation have been made online.
Addressing the workshop, the Chief Minister disclosed that 522 MoUs had been signed for setting up various industrial units in the state. As many as 359 MoUs were signed at the Happening Haryana Global Investors Summit which was a grand success. But afterwards, more MoUs more were inked taking the aggregate to 522. Out of 359 MoUs, 121 were for less than Rs 10 crore each, for which clearances can be given by the Deputy Commissioner at the district level itself, said he.
The Chief Minister stressed the need for speedy redressal of grievances and said that E-Biz portal had been launched for online business clearances. The investors can register on this portal www. investharyana.nic.in and also upload grievances on this portal, said he.
Earlier, detailing the new initiatives taken to promote investment and make ease of doing business easier still, Sudhir Rajpal, MD, HSIIDC, said that grievance handling at the district level was being made functional on monthly basis. Officials are required to strictly abide by the new procedures for inspections of industrial premises and change in attitude from ‘regulator’ to ‘facilitator’ is needed. There is three-tiered mechanism for monitoring grievances redressal.
“Our initiatives became so popular that delegations form Rajasthan and Tamil Nadu and some other states came here to know about these initiatives. Such steps were being taken only in Haryana, Punjab and Telangana in the entire country,” Rajpal added.
Senior officers of line departments also gave presentations related to their respective departments in which they talked about how the department is going to handhold investors and facilitate them.