Haryana government eases norms to attract investments

KOLKATA: In a bid to attract investments, Harayana government has eased various norms and has come up with single window clearance system for setting up of industries in the state, Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar today said.

"We are here to attract investments in Haryana. We are going to organise an investors' summit in our state on March 7-8. We have introduced single window clearance system with time bound prospective so that the investors can have a hassle free system for investments," Khattar told a press conference here.

Khattar said the state government has set up 31 administrative blocks where the investors won't need Change of Land Use ( CLU) clearance to set up industries while there are 75 more blocks where CLUs will be given in a time bound manner," he said.

"If someone is investing something below Rs 10 crore, there is no need for the entrepreneur to come to the state government, he can get all clearances locally under the deputy commissioner.

Khattar was here to launch the second roadshow in the run up to " Happening Haryana-Global Investors Summit 2016" at Gurgaon.

Stating that the automobile sector holds a special position in Harayana, he said there are lot of scope for investors to invest in Diary, food processing, steel, IT and automobile sector.

Khattar said during the day he met a number of industrialists in Bengal, who have expressed their desire to invest around 5000 crore in Haryana.

"Nothing is finalised as of now. But we had a meeting with a host of investors. Food processing, polymers, IT, Solar, infrastructure are some of the sectors where investors have expressed their desire to invest. There may be many more such proposals".

He also said that the state government has zero-tolerance on the issue of corruption.