Excelsior Correspondent
SRINAGAR, June 25: Federation Chamber of Industries Kashmir (FCIK) here today held an interaction session with Lt. Governor, Manoj Sinha along with Chief Secretary, Arun Kumar Mehta, Additional Secretary, Vivek Bhardwaj, Pandurang Pole, Divisional Commissioner Kashmir and Mahamood Shah, Director Industries & Commerce.
FCIK team was led by Shahid Kamili, president and secretary general, Ovees Qadir Jamie and others.
FCIK president Kamli put forth charter of demands like marketing support, issues in change of constitution and line of activity, Pending Payments and Delayed Payment Act, industrial land allotment policy, revocation for cancellation and eviction process of the industrial land, extension of relief in regulations and taxation, revival and rehabilitation of industrial sector, conversion of lease hold rights to free hold rights and promotion of entrepreneurship by safeguarding interests and framing of standard bidding document.
FCIK demanded that half of the amount of Rs. 28400 crore of central incentive package should be extended to the exiting industry so that the same can be made sustainable and competitive after withdrawal of incentives.
Demand of framing Economic Revival Committee with time bound submission of report was also raised.
FCIK demanded that local purchase filter on GeM portal should be enhanced upto Rs. 3 crore and the departments be directed to procure from local MSME by any means the government desires.
It also demanded that the government should made land allotment to all those bonafide prospective unit holders, who have applied with their proper applications on the same parameters by way of which the Government has earlier allotted huge chunk of land in J&K.
Another demand raised was that of conversion of Lease Hold Right to Free Hold Right to the existing unit holders, for the land allotted by J&K SIDCO and J&K SICOP in the notified Industrial Estates/Areas as done by Delhi State Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation Board to transfer or regularize leasehold rights into free hold rights of industrial plots.
The Lt Governor assured that all the demands will be thoroughly analyzed and redressal of same was assured. He also said that periodic interaction programme will be held with industrial sector to get feedback for upliftment of industrial sector.
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