Haryana Asked To Frame Action Plan On Industrial Policy

The PHD Chamber of Commerce and Industry has asked the Haryana government to devise an action plan to ensure effective implementation of its new industrial policy.

In a note submitted to state industry secretary M L Tayal, the chamber has appreciated the Haryana governments efforts in according emphasis to infrastructure development in its new policy.

The chamber has also praised the state government for declaring electronics, automobiles, textiles, handloom and hosiery and agro industries as thrust industries.

The chamber has suggested adopting the Maharashtra model for setting up industrial estates. In this regard, the chamber has suggested that:

l The total land be acquired in one go and there be no subsequent additions.

The chamber feels this approach helps in preventing unauthorised areas from coming up in the periphery and facilitates complete and unobstructed implementation of the plans for providing industrial and social infrastructure.

l The area surrounding the proposed estate be comprehensively studied before preparing the development plan as this minimises the possibility of conflict later on.

l A chemical industrial zone having common effluent treatments be developed in advance for chemical industries.

l The industrial estate should be well linked through road.

The chamber has emphasised that the cost of industrial land should not make the project unviable for an entrepreneur as the project is planned in a developed region.

The chamber has suggested creating an industrial maintenance authority for each industrial area to try and solve problems related to industrial infrastructure.

In its note, the chamber has lamented that inadequate power supply, poor distribution and transmission systems, lack of sewerage facilities and secondary treatment plants, poor road maintenance, dismal street lighting and inefficient security systems are common in almost all industrial areas in the state.