Industrial
and Investment Promotion Policy (NEIIP), 2007 New
Introduction
North East Industrial and investment promotion policy
(NEIIP), 2007 is effective from 1.04.2007. NEIIP, 2007
covered the sates of Assam, Manipur, Nagaland, and Arunachal
Pradesh, Mizoram, Meghalaya , Tripura and Sikkim.The
Government of Assam has formulated a package of incentives
for promotion and setting up industrial units and to
promote investment in the State. Incentives will be
available to all industrial units, new as well as existing
units on their substantial expansion, located anywhere
in the North Eastern Region. Consequently, the distinction
between 'thrust' and 'non-thrust' industries made in
NEIP, 1997 will be discontinued from 1.4.2007. Incentives
on substantial expansion will be given to units effecting
'an increase by not less than 25% in the value of fixed
capital investment in plant and machinery for the purpose
of expansion of capacity/modernization and diversification',
as against an increase by 33½ % which was prescribed
in NEIP, 1997.
Information Technology (IT) occupies
a key position in our modern age and is one of the fastest
growing sectors in the world economy. Applications of
IT have become pervasive, covering all spheres of life.
Government of Assam has recognized this fact and has
formulated the policy below keeping in mind all facets
of IT.
Objectives of the Policy
The
basic objectives of the Information Technology policy of Assam shall be:
To accord primacy for the
growth of I.T industry for the purpose of socio-economic development of the State.
To accelerate the use of Information
Technology industry at the governmental level with the view to provide better
services to the citizens of the state;
To improve productivity and efficiency of the Government services to the citizens
of the state.
To serve as
an important tool to enhance employability as well absorb a major portion of the
educated employed in the state;
To enable the state reach an eminent position in the Information Technology sector.
To encourage and accelerate the growth of both the domestic
and the export oriented I.T units in the state and make the state an attractive
destination for I.T investment within India and abroad.
To encourage and accelerate the use of Information Technology
in schools, colleges and educational institutions in the state to enable the youth
to acquire necessary skills and knowledge in this sector making them highly employable.
To set up training institutes in
the private sector and the joint sector in order to prepare skilled manpower within
the existing system;
To organize
Manpower Development Training in the field of Computer Applications for the successful
implementation of the Information Technology Policy of Assam .
To develop appropriate networks between various departments
and different spatially spread out administrative hierarchies through well designed
database management systems.
To encourage the spread of IT in the private sector
