Industrial
Development & Investment Scenario (2003-June 2006)
New
Introduction:
The Madhya Pradesh Government has
now come up with New Industrial Promotion Policy, 2004
(being restructured again based on feedbacks from Investors)
& New Forest Policy 2005 to enhance growth in both
urban and rural areas. It is advantageous to set up
units in Madhya Pradesh because the land and knowledge
workers are available at a very low cost. It is an industrially
peaceful state with fewer law & order problems.
According to Tata Statistical outline 2005-2006 (page
147) the turnover on investment in Madhya Pradesh is
one of the highest among all states in the country.
Investment proposals worth about Rs. 86,000 crore ($19b
approx) are in different stages of consideration in
Madhya Pradesh. To a great extent, the New Industrial
Policy 2004 is responsible for generating an atmosphere
of confidence in industry. This is a new Madhya Pradesh,
which truly means "Business". Whether in the
field of infrastructure or manufacturing or the service
sector, fresh investments are pouring into Madhya Pradesh.
On it's part, the Madhya Pradesh Government is making
every possible endeavour to market the State, invite
investments, and offer incentives and conducive environment
to facilitate fresh investments.
The Government of Madhya Pradesh
has displayed a strong commitment for the socio-economic
development of the citizens of the state. Conservation
of the state's rich biodiversity, its sustainable use
for expanding livelihood security and ensuring equitable
sharing of its benefits have been part of this larger
commitment.
Biotechnology is research-led
and capital intensive. It demands the supply of trained
human resource. At the same time there are strengths
emanating out of traditional wisdom that need to be
protected and enhanced for the larger common good.
The S&T requirements of the state
are met by the M.P. Council of Science and Technology
(MAPCOST) which is also a nodal agency of the Department
of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, New Delhi
in the state.
The M.P. Council of Science &
Technology was constituted to fulfill the following
objectives based on the recommendations of the workshop
of S&T Council’s held in Bangalore in 1981
as per the Govt. of India Science Policy Resolution
1958.
The new Captive Power Policy
of the State Government, is highly detrimental to efficient
utilization of power generating capacity created at
a considerable cost, conservation of electricity through
demand side management and reduction of losses in utilization
of electricity. Captive power plant means power plant
including generating sets if any installed by consumer
of Madhya Pradesh Electricity Board (MPEB) for his own
use.
The State Environment Policy
seeks to lay down guidelines that will facilitate development
while ensuring environmental conservation, yet without
hampering the present and future development imperatives.
Provision for environmental protection has been laid
down in the Directive Principles of State Policy in
the Constitution of India by assigning the duties for
the State and all citizens through Article 48A and Article
51A (g) which state that the 'State shall endeavor to
protect and improve the environment and to safeguard
the forests and wildlife in the country 'and 'to protect
and improve the natural environment including forests,
lakes and rivers and wildlife, and to have compassion
for the living creatures'.
With the view to speed-up development
of Tourism in Madhya Pradesh, the State Government announced
a New Tourism Policy in January 1995. The new tourism
policy envisages creation of an environment conducive
to attracting increased private investment in the tourism
sector, and a more meaningful role for the Government.
State Govt. is responsible for dissemination of information,
organisation of festivals and inter-departmental co-ordination
to create conditions for attracting private sector investment
for the tourism sector.
The State Government announced
a Eco & Adventure Tourism Policy in 2001 to promote
the private sector participation. The locations are
identified for launching Eco and Adventure Tourism activities
initially on a trial basis as well as entrepreneur is
free to come up with his own sites, subject to Government
approval.
Transport plays a principal
role in economic development of any area. A well laid-out
road network is essential for efficient and cost effective
movement of men and materials, without which trade and
industry cannot maintain a competitive edge.
Recognizing this fact, Government
of Madhva Pradesh has decided to accord special priority
to road development and prepare a road policy to meet
the challenges ahead.
Water is a natural resource,
fundamental need of living being and invaluable national
wealth. In the developmental planning of the state,
water is a decisive and multifaceted component. For
environmental balance, skillful and planned management
for all types of developmental activities, economic
use on the equitable basis and in view of the prime
importance of water for all human and other living beings,
an effective and sound water policy is necessary.
Madhya Pradesh is the largest
state in India, with a total population of over 66 millions,
a large concentration of tribal population, and great
regional and cultural diversity. Half of this population
is constituted by women (48.2 percent of population).
The literacy level in 1991 for
women was 28.85 percent. Within the state, there is
much inter-district variation (the highest female literacy
levels were found in 1991 in Bhopal (54.17 percent)
and the lowest in Jhabua (11.52 percent). Women in Madhya
Pradesh work mainly in agriculture, forestry, home based
production and the urban informal sector.
Recognizing that the problems
of women need special focus and attention, the State
created a separate Department of Women and Child Development
in 1988. This is, however,the first attempt to formulate
a comprehensive policy for the empowerment of women
in the state that takes into account the specificities
of the situation of women in the State. Constitution
of India provides the framework for the status and development
of women, and it is on these lines that the Madhya Pradesh
Policy for Women is designed. The process of developmental
planning in India and in Madhya Pradesh has made an
attempt to address itself to women from the very beginning.
The State now moves ahead from the effort towards women
developed, which revolved around economic and social
programmes. EMPOWERMENT OF WOMEN is the key item on
the agenda today, if iniquitous societal structures
are to be broken and women are to take their rightful
place in the political, social and economic life of
the nation and of our state. The State considers empowerment
of Women's as an ongoing process of collective struggle
against the forces that oppress and subordinate women.
It emphasizes a process of redistribution of all available
resources in society social, economic, political, intellectual
and cultural to ensure women's equal access to them.
Further, it recognises women's productive and reproductive
labor, their equal right to work and property, the opportunity
for decision making at all levels including the family,
the workplace, and the community, equal access to knowledge,
he right to life, and equal opportunities for the girl
child. In Madhya Pradesh, a beginning has already been
made in this direction. The State has the unique distinction
of already having implemented the 73rd and 74th Amendments
to the Constitution, and. conducting elections to the
three tier Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRl) and municipalities.
Since August 1994 rights and duties of the newly elected
PRIs with reference to several government departments
have been delegated to the Panchayats.
The State of Madhya Pradesh has
another distinction, in being one of the first States
to implement one-third representation for women in all
Local Self Government institutions. The elections to
the PRIs with a 33.3 percent reservation for women constitute
a revolutionary step towards restructuring of power
at the village, block ana district levels. Nineteen
of the forty five Jila Panchayat Presidents in the State
are women. There are a total of 1 ,84,000 women members
of the PRIs in the State today. The present policy for
women takes into account this path breaking transformation
and is intended to equip women for their new role in
the exercise of effective political power. Women are
one of the poorest and under-privileged groups in our
society, and development has not always been beneficial
to them. Agricultural development and mechanisation
has, for instance, taken away from women the important
role that they traditionally played in the agrarian
economy. Improvements in technology have not looked
at female specific jobs in agriculture and crop processing,
and industrial recruitment have similarly marginalised
women in the name of so called skill disqualification.
The majority of Indian women work in the unorganised
sector where the rights of women are the most neglected
and overlooked. They not only suffer from discriminatory
wage but have also to bear the burden of household chores,
which mostly goes unnoticed and unacknowledged. Gradual
feminisation of poverty is another daunting prospect.
A greater number of women than ever before continue
to live in extreme poverty even as they have no control
on their income, They are thus doubly handicapped. Therefore,
women will never be strong until the material basis
of their life and livelihood is also strengthened. It
is towards the empowerment and development of women,
that the "Madhya Pradesh Policy for Women"
is directed.
The Trade Sector plays a vital
role in the State's economy. To give due recognition
to the role of the Trade sector the M.P. Government
has formulated a separate Trade Policy in 1998. The
policy emphasizes on the facilitatory role of the State
Government in the promotion and development of trade.
It focuses on strengthening the infrastructure available
to the Trade sector, encouraging private sector participation,
simplification of tax laws, and implementation of necessary
measures for establishing an effective co-ordination
between the Government and the Trade sector.
The Trade Sector plays a vital
role in the State's economy. To give due recognition
to the role of the Trade sector the M.P. Government
has formulated a separate Trade Policy in 1998. The
policy emphasizes on the facilitatory role of the State
Government in the promotion and development of trade.
It focuses on strengthening the infrastructure available
to the Trade sector, encouraging private sector participation,
simplification of tax laws, and implementation of necessary
measures for establishing an effective co-ordination
between the Government and the Trade sector.
Office of 'Director, Small Industries
and Trade ' to play a coordinating, and advisory role
between the Government and the trade sector.
State-level Trade Advisory Committee
under the Chairmanship of Minister for Commerce and
Industry, MP.
Facilities of warehousing, godowns,
stockyard, etc, to be created in the state through
private investment
Container depots have already been
established in the cities of Indore. Gwalior and Raipur.
Private sector assistance called for establishing
container depots in other cities of the state.
In a move towards encouraging exports,
the construction of Air Cargo complex at Indore is
under progress. Air Cargo complexes to be established
at other places in the state with the cooperation
of private sector.
Efforts to be made to accord international
status to the airports at Bhopal, Indore. Raipur.
and Khajuraho.
Consider the imposition of "Toll
Tax" for improving the road facilities and for
better maintenance.
Bus Stations and transport Nagars
to be developed at sites identified by the Department
of Town and Country Planning in the principle cities
of the State through private investment.
Sites for establishing Commercial
/ Trade Centres to be identified in selected cities
by the Housing and Environment department and these
sites would be auctioned to the private sector.
Necessary measures to be taken
for provision of civic amenities like park, toilets
markets etc. in the municipal plans of the cities.
These would also be a part of the city plans.
The State's tax rates and provisions
to be made at par with the neighboring states and
necessary measures would be taken to simplify these
rules and provisions.
To consider necessary amendments
in the provisions of Labour laws and Industrial Disputes
Act.
According to their trade, the traders
in the state to be classified under different categories
and facilities would be provided accordingly.
Mandi law to be suitably amended
and simplified keeping in view the interests of the
traders and the farmers.
Industrial peace is necessary for
industrial development. This is possible only if cordial
relations exist between management and labour. Efforts
will be made to find acceptable solutions to prevent
industrial disputes assuming ugly forms. Where necessary
the industrial relations machinery will be further
geared up.
Determined efforts will be made
to put a stop tendencies like pressurisation, unrest
and violence the industrial sector. While efforts
will be made to protect the recognized rights of labour
strikes will be discouraged and if necessary firmly
prevented.
Management will be expected and
encouraged to accept the legitimate demands of workers,
so that situations like strikes and agitations do
not arise. Powers of renewing factory license under
the Factories Act will be decentralized.
Efforts will be made to ensure
adequate arrangements in industrial areas for the
health and safety of workers.
Labour
Law reforms initiated by M P Government
Government of M.P. has prohibited
the Labour inspectors from conducting any inspections
in the industry, unless the industry itself is guilty
of lapses in submission of prescribed reports and
returns and / or they have been directed to carry
out inspections pursuant to complaints of violation
of any labour laws in that particular industry.
Removal of all restrictions on
work related with I.T. industry except restrictions
relating the employment of women during night hours
after 9.00 P.M.
Renewal of license by Chief Inspector
of Factories is done for 5 years at a time.
