The State Assembly passed the Uttarakhand Green Energy Cess and Uttarakhand ropeways Bill by voice vote on Tuesday. On the second day of the winter session of assembly the parliamentary affairs Minister Indira Hriyadesh tabled these acts which were passed by the assembly.
In the Uttarakhand green cess act the state government proposes to impose a levy on the power which is being generated in the state but is transmitted outside for usage of other states.
The cess would be also imposed on the power supplied to the commercial and industrial units. The state government intends to promote the private entrepreneurs and community participation in power sector with the corpus collected from the cess.
By implementing the ropeways act the state government is planning to increase the network of ropeways in the state to facilitate tourism and improve infrastructure.
The act would ensure a proper policy for construction and operation of the ropeways and the link roads for these ropeways which are functional in the state.
The act envisages constitution of a committee at district level under the chairmanship of District magistrate for construction and operation of ropeways.
The Superintendent of Police, Divisional Forest Officer, Sub divisional
magistrate concerned and district ropeways inspector would be the members of the committee.