Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant, Minister for Industries, Mauvin Godinho, Chairperson of GIDC, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco and others at the meet.
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The Chief Minister, Dr Pramod Sawant held a meeting along with Minister for Industries, Mauvin Godinho, Chairperson of Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC), Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, Director of Directorate of Industries, Trade and Commerce and Chief Executive Officer of Goa Investment Promotion and Facilitation Board (Goa-IPB), Swetika Sachan, IAS, Managing Director, GIDC, Venancio Furtado among others to discuss the facilitation of ease of doing business in Goa and devise a roadmap for industrial growth in the State.
Dr Sawant discussed the possibilities of encouraging private landowners to lease their land for industries and the role of the Government to facilitate it.
At the meeting, it was also decided to consider granting permissions to restart closed industrial units.
Godinho assured to introduce Amendments related to facilitating ease of doing business in the state during the ensuing Assembly session.
Swetika Sachan enumerated steps that would help create an environment of trust between State and industry. She spoke of how a single-window system to set up industries could become a reality if necessary Amendments were done to the Goa IPB along with reforms of GIDC regulations and the process of re-engineering of all key departments was initiated which would help get clearances from departments within a timeline and would help in formulating an Investment Policy.
