PANJIM: The Goa Industrial Development Corporation has floated the Goa IDC Exit Policy
to free up 423 plots, adding up to 12 lakh square metres area in industrial
estates and sick units so that they can be transferred to new businesses who
wish to set up shop in Goa. The transfer and land allotment process will be
simplified and all licences, renewals and infrastructure will be put on fast
track, Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said at the launch of the policy on
Tuesday, in Panjim.
Chief
Minister Pramod Sawant said the plots and sick units have been lying unused
since 1980 in various industrial estates. The benefits of the Goa IDC Exit Policy will be non-functional
units will be made functions and employment opportunities will be generated.
The policy’s
objectives are to make it easy for industry players to exit from industries,
which is part of ease of doing business. It aims to transfer non-functional
units to new businesses. The policy simplifies the unit and land allotment
process.
As part of
a new initiative, IDC Connect will solve the difficulties faced by industries
by going to the units. A DGPS survey of all industries has been done and it is
now easy for Goa Industrial Development Corporation to know from its
headquarters which plots are vacant in which industrial estate, Chief Minister
Pramod Sawant said. Under this e-auction of plots has already started, he
added.
All licences,
renewals and upgradation of infrastructure in industrial estates will be taken
up on fast track basis, Sawant assured. The idea is to create a conducive
environment for new industries to come to Goa.
A State
Warehousing Policy has also been introduced as part of Goa IDC Exit Support Policy,
CM said.
