The Government of Assam has been undertaking several measures
for setting up a conducive business climate into the State, with a view
to attract the investors from all over the world. The most important step
in this direction has been the formulation of policies, from time to time,
for the various sectors of the economy. Such policies unveil a roadmap
for the overall development of the State by removing the hurdles in the
investment and industrial progress. All these policy documents also envisage
incentives and schemes for the investors.
The major being, the Industrial Policy, which has been announced with a view to increase
the share of industrial sector in the State Domestic Product (SDP). Under
this, emphasis has been laid on making the operational guidelines effective
and simplifying the procedures, so that the prospective entrepreneurs
and investors find the investment climate in the State attractive and
preferable. The main objectives of the policy are to:-
- Generate more employment opportunities in the State;
- Ensure development of adequate and appropriate infrastructures
for industrial growth;
- Make Assam one of the preferred destinations for investment
for outside investors;
- Encourage private investment in industrial infrastructure
projects;
- Ensure industrial development in industrially backward
regions of the State;
- Create avenue for sustained growth and development of
the small scale and tiny sectors;
- Catalyse administrative and legal reforms for simplifying
the procedures as well as ensuring time bound disposal of matters;
- Promote rural handicrafts for conserving and enriching
cultural heritage, traditions and customs of the State;
- Promote establishment of medium and large-scale mother
industries to create an industrial base, offering large-scale employment
opportunities through backward and forward linkages;
- Promote information technology, high-tech, knowledge
based and biotech industries;
- Promote export oriented industrial units;
- Take steps to revive the potentially viable sick Public
Sector Undertakings;
- Provide Single Window Clearance system for fast track
clearance of industrial proposals.
Another important policy formulated by the State Government
has been the Information
Technology Policy, which aims to accelerate the growth of the information
technology (IT) industry for the overall benefit of the State economy.
The basic objectives of the policy are to:-
- Accord primacy to the IT industry for the purpose of
socio-economic development of the State;
- Improve productivity and efficiency of the Government
services to the citizens of the State;
- Serve as an important tool to enhance employability
as well as to absorb a major portion of the educated unemployed in the
State;
- Enable the State reach an eminent position in the IT
sector;
- Encourage and accelerate the growth of both domestic
and export oriented IT units in the State;
- Make the State an attractive destination for IT investment
within India and abroad;
- Encourage and accelerate the use of IT in schools, colleges
and educational institutions in the State, for enabling the youth to
acquire necessary skills and knowledge in this sector making them highly
employable;
- Develop appropriate networks between various departments
and different spatially spread out administrative hierarchies through
well designed database management systems;
- Encourage the spread of IT in the private sector.
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