Land allotment to two projects worth Rs 144.66 crore cleared in J&K

In this regard, Principal Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department, Ranjan P. Thakur, chaired first High Level Land Allotment Committee meeting for Kashmir division today to approve allotment of land for establishing projects having proposed investment from Rs 50 crore to Rs 200 crore under the  provisions of J&K Industrial Land Allotment Policy in Srinagar.

At the outset, he highlighted that the process of land allotment has been streamlined and is made  transparent in a committee based appraisal and allotment method. The applications are received round  the clock on a window portal making it an ongoing process.

The process of land allotment, for the first time adopted a strategy based on different parameters of the  Project Report and presentations as envisaged in the Land Allotment Policy 2021-30.

Tazayun Mukhtar Kawos, Director Industries and Commerce, Kashmir (Member Secretary, High Level  Land Allotment Committee) presented the agenda for five cases before the Committee and expressed  optimism that the decisions in the meeting usher in a new era of growth, industrialization and  employment generation in J&K besides promoting a culture of entrepreneurship.

The High Level Land Allotment Committee took up all five projects for allotment of land in Industrial  Estates, IGC Lassipora, IE Khrew and IE Tulbal Sopore of Kashmir Division with a projected investment of  Rs 430.41 crore.

After deliberations on case to case basis the committee approved two cases of land allotment with a projected investment of Rs 144.66 crore having employment potential of 100. Rest of the three projects were discussed threadbare and due to certain shortcomings in the DPRs were referred back for  completion.

The establishment and registration of new units of air polluting industries in Industrial  Estate Khrew were deferred because of the moratorium by Pollution Control Board.

Approximately Rs 8,000 Cr and employment potential of 30000 persons in Kashmir are presently under  the process of being approved.

In the Union Territory of J&K, projects worth Rs. 20,000 crore employing 64,000 persons in J&K are in  pipeline.

The meeting was attended by Farooq Ah Shah, Secretary in Housing and Urban Department, Anoo  Malhotra, Director, I&C Jammu, Parvaiz Ah Handoo, Director Planning, Forest Department, Dr. Basharat  Qayoom, Managing Director KPDCL, Atul Sharma Managing Director, J&K SIDCO/ J&K SICOP, Fayaz Ah  Fayaz, Joint Director, I&C Department, Syed Nadeem Representative from PCB and Shahid Kamili,  President, FCIK Srinagar.