Odisha would soon come out with an action plan in response to Government of India's 'Make in India' programme meant to strengthen manufacturing industries and make them competitive in the global market.
"A committee under the chief secretary will be constituted to work out the modalities of the action plan. The Centre has come out with 98 points for compliance by the state governments. These points were discussed in detail at today's meeting. The Odisha government has already implemented some of these action points like submission of common application forms by investors and implementation of single window system," said a state official.
'Make in India' is an international marketing campaign slogan to attract businesses from around the world to invest and manufacture in the country. The major objective behind this initiative is to focus upon the heavy industries and public enterprises while generating employment, empowering secondary and tertiary sectors and utilising the human resource present in the country.
The Centre has offered a slew of recommendation to states for 'Make in India' plant. These include developing a framework to earmark land parcels, develop land banks for ready availability of land for industries, coming out with time bound and transparent land allotment procedures, allowing online registration of properties/land, establishment of labour arbitration courts in industry clusters to expedite dispute resolutions and creation of an online application form for obtaining infrastructure related utilities like electricity and water.
On setting up of a business, the recommendations are publishing a comprehensive checklist for all requirements for no-objection certificates and licenses, prescribing timelines for each service delivery, making the single window clearance mechanism online, single registration and ID for all state taxes and creating a facilitation mechanism for filling up of forms.
