LG ask officials to focus on pvt industrial estates
The Lieutenant Governor of Jammu and Kashmir Manoj Sinha on Wednesday asked officials to focus on the development of Private Industrial Estates to facilitate the industrial growth across the Union territory.
“Speeding up the process of facilitating investment proposals in the UT,” LG passed directions while chairing a meeting to review the functioning of the Industries and Commerce department here at Civil Secretariat.
He also directed the Directors Industries & Commerce Department to hold regular meetings with chamber & industry representatives and take stock of their issues and concerns.
Chief Secretary, J&K will meet the Industry representatives, Chambers every three months to resolve the issues and challenges confronting the businesses.
Pertinently, the Lt Governor, on June 25 met Industry Leaders and representatives of various Industries Associations from across Jammu & Kashmir in Srinagar, and a similar interaction will be held in Jammu in the first week of August.
He also sought the progress on developing Medi-Cities in the UT, which will strengthen the health sector, enhance the educational seats and create employment opportunities for thousands of medical professionals.
He further called for identifying the measures that can be taken to improve J&K’s Ease of Doing Business ranking.
Dr. Arun Kumar Mehta, Chief Secretary instructed for taking feedback from the users regarding online services being provided by Industries & Commerce department and also advised for linking these online services with e-Unnat and integrating them with RAS as well.
He will be chairing a meeting every month to review the progress of the Industries & Commerce Department.
