Punjab grants big relief to industrial units running in residential areas

Period of one and a half years given for shifting , Deputy Chief Minister announces slew of concessions

5 Dariya News

Chandigarh 21-Dec-2015

Providing a big relief to the small scale industry, the Punjab Government has granted a timeframe of one and a half years to the industrial units running in residential localities around SAS Nagar to shift their base. Besides rehabilitation of such existing units various initiatives benefitting the traders and industrialists have also been announced.Disclosing this, an official spokesman said the state government has chalked out a comprehensive policy after the high court orders taking into consideration the concerns of the local industry. He said that on the directions of the Deputy Chief Minister S. Sukhbir Singh Badal, Punjab has granted its approval to shift and rehabilitate the industrial units within one and a half years which were located in the mixed land use/residential sectors in villages Balongi, Daon, Badmajra, Landran and Saneta falling under GMADA. A notification in this regard had also been issued.

It is informed that the Punjab and Haryana high court in its judgment had directed that such industrial units must submit an affidavit within 3 months about shifting their operations from rural areas around SAS Nagar.

Revealing the concessions granted to the affected entrepreneurs, the spokesman said the option have been offered to the owners to purchase industrial plots available through PSIEC and GMADA as about four dozen units would be shifted from residential sectors. Under this rehabilitation policy plots would be allotted to the industrialists in accordance with their eligibility.Elaborating more, he added that fee for change of land use (CLU) would not be charged from the industrialists on purchasing land at their own under regional plan of GMADA or industrial zones formed as per the master plan of SAS Nagar. Besides this, no external development charges (EDC), licence fees and building plan approval fees (without labour cess) would be levied from such entrepreneurs but they had to procure NOC from Punjab Pollution Control Board at their own.