Aiming to reduce red tapism while issuing industrial permits, simplifying rules and other policies to encourage industrial growth, Maharashtra government has constituted a high power cabinet sub-committee that will be headed by chief minister Devendra Fadnavis.
As part of the “Make in Maharashtra” campaign, the state government, through this seven-member committee aims to attract investments by simplifying norms to get licences in order to start businesses, and make necessary amendments to existing laws.
Minister of industries, finance and planning department, chief secretary and principal secretary of industries department will be the members of the cabinet sub-committee while, CM will be the chairperson. Other ministers and secretaries concerned will be made the invitee members of the committee whenever necessary.
“The committee formed to facilitate the ‘Make in Maharashtra’ campaign will meet at least once every month or whenever required to work towards giving relevant licences for startups in the industry while reducing the time frame to acquire relevant permissions,” a government resolution issued by Maharashtra government stated.
The sub-committee has also been given the task to monitor the status of issuing license applications of industries and keeping a check on various departments whose clearances are required for start-ups. The secretarial committee has been given the task of reviewing cases where a government department has not given clearances to industries within the specified period of time. If there were significant delays in giving the clearance, the committee would immediately try to resolve it.
“The CM’s ministerial sub-committee will take the final decision on recommendations submitted by the chief secretary level committee formed for the same purpose. In its meetings, the sub-committee will check the status of digitisation of clearances required by the industries,” said Subhash Desai, industries minister.
The committee would also recommend changes in the policy to the cabinet committee. “Currently, 76 permissions from various departments are required for the startup of an industry. The government aims to bring down the number of permissions required to 25,” Mr Desai added.
