Andaman & Nicobar
- Other Investment Policies
Industrial Policy
The A&N Islands are still at the
infant stage of industrial development and have been declared
as an Industrially Backward Region Category-`A' by the Government
of India. The pace of industrial growth in the A&N Islands
has been slow mainly due to the locational disadvantages
and lack of infrastructural facilities.
The A&N Administration had formulated
an Industrial Policy in the year 1988 which helped in creating
investment in Small and Tiny Sector. However the Industrial
growth was very modest and slow in view of the absence of
attractive package of incentives and concessions to new
industrial ventures. In view of these new developments and
changing economic scenario, the A&N Administration has
pronounced a new Industrial Policy-1996.
I.T Policy
One of the prime policy consideration
of a democratic government is the need to ensure that the
benefits of its initiatives spread evenly and reach the
under privileged population groups as well. While the benefits
of citizen services projects reach the rich and the poor
equally, IT projects aimed at improving the internal efficiencies
benefit the poor indirectly through better planning and
targeting of weaker section programs and superior enforcement
of law. Apart from this, the IT should percolate to the
middle class and people below the poverty line. This can
be achieved by taking Internet to the villages, promoting
IT-enabled education, tele-medicine and socially relevant
extension and outreach programmes.
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