Strengthening of District Industries Centre, announcing policies and structure of incentives for the 14 thrust, industrial sectors to extending benefits made available to SC/ST entrepreneurs to General Category entrepreneurs in backward regions too figure among suggestions FTAPCCI has made to Telangana government.
With insufficient manpower and infrastructure, the DICs are unable to fulfil their main responsibility of surveying and supervising the industrial areas and their activities. After reorganisation of the districts, from 10 to 31, no additional staff has been recruited for them. Strengthening of the DICs should be taken up on priority.
The suggestions form part of a Knowledge Paper prepared by the Federation of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry on the industrial growth of Telangana and impact of the TS-iPASS industrial policy.
Besides underscoring the need for to formulate policies for the 14 sectors, FTAPCCI called for awareness programmes on TS-iPASS benefits in backward districts; declaring Adilabad as cotton zone and issue of special incentives for those setting up spinning mills in Asifabad, Adilabad, Mancherial and Nirmal districts. Other suggestions included promoting the setting up of product-wise parks either under PPP mode or in private sector by extending special incentives to the units; developing Nizamabad as a destination for food processing units; and introduction of new and relevant courses in ITIs and polytechnic colleges. Launching the document on Tuesday, FTAPCCI president Ravindra Modi said Telangana government has succeeded in acting as a facilitator and catalyst in attracting domestic and international investments.
An analysis shows that the government has taken the first step toward achieving the objective of “progress with distributive justice” by attracting investments into every district.Secretary General TS Appa Rao said there was need to do more to attract industrial units in areas that in the past had witnessed flight of capital due to “Left wing extremism”. North Telangana, he added, is still backward on industrialisation front.
