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PANAJI
While submitting recommendations for Goa State Budget, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) has urged Chief Minister, Pramod Sawant, to implement self-certification for low-risk industries to promote ease of doing business (EODB).
Lalit Saraswat, chairman of CII-Goa State Council and industrialists Blaise Costabir and Atul Jhadav met Sawant and submitted a list of recommendations to him.
They highlighted that states like Rajasthan and Chattisgarh have already allowed self-certification for low-risk industries. If it is done in Goa, it will ease the regulatory burden of cumbersome inspection procedures, which result in operational delays.
Further, CII also recommended that third-party certification should be introduced for all medium-risk industries. CII mentioned that no new plot has been allotted by Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) for logistics and warehousing since 2012.
This is hampering the growth of logistics in the State, which is a huge concern. CII suggested that the provisions of GIDC pertaining to transfer and sublease should be diluted so that industrial undertakings having plot area of upto 4,000 sq. metres can migrate to “service industry units” by paying a reasonable fee, provided the entrepreneurs want it to happen.
If this happens, then the State will have new warehousing properties, which will give a boost to the economy. In line with other states, CII also demanded that mega projects with investment of more than Rs 100 crores, which are set up after January 2020, should be given incentives like refund of Goods-and-Services-Tax (GST) on local sales.
CII also sought creation of “State Maritime Promotion Board”, which will facilitate a single window for the overall maritime development of Goa, develop dredging activities to optimise utilization of waterways, etc.
