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KCR woos India Inc
In a bid to woo the captains of the Indian industry, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao offered everything for asking right from land to water and electricity for those who decide to set up factories in the state.
Hyderabad: In a bid to woo the captains of the Indian industry, Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao offered everything for asking right from land to water and electricity for those who decide to set up factories in the state.
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Responding to a volley of questions from who’s who in the industry on Wednesday, Chandrashekar Rao said that the state is ready to take up all the peripheral problems that prick them and extend facilities to allow them to focus on to their business.
“I wish no industrialist should visit any government office,” Rao said at the ‘CII National Council meet the Chief Minister’ programme organised exclusively to provide an opportunity for the industrialists.Rao said the government is moving towards transforming the state as ‘seed capital of India’. Claiming that he is a farmer, Rao said, “We have decided to promote green-house cultivation and earmarked about Rs 500 crore to promote it.”
Linking it to the industry, Rao said the FMCG major ITC is investing Rs 8,000 crore in the state, which includes a food-processing unit at Toopran on outskirts of Hyderabad. He informed the gathering that the licence for the factory was given in just 11 working days.
Mentioning about the popular local variety of mango Himayat Pasand, Rao said the food processing units coming up will have unique horticulture products grown in the green-houses being set up by progressive farmers.
Responding to the request from sugar mills, Rao said the government departments are already examining their demands for imposing entry tax and removal of purchase tax besides other proposals to buy sugar from Telangana mills for the requirements of PDS scheme.
On power crisis, the Chief Minister reiterated his government’s resolve to make the state 24/7 power supply state. He explained in detail how the government is working out plans to set up power plants targeting to produce about 20,000 MW by 2019-20. “We have already cleared 12,000 MW power plants where work orders have been issued and 4,000 MW was mandated to NTPC, which is already in the job,” he pointed out.
On infrastructure development, the Chief Minister said that the government has already earmarked Rs 4,000 crore and more plans are under way. He even offered land to the industry to develop their own townships providing residential options to their staff. “We have enough land pool and ready to offer land for residential purposes, if the industries come forward to develop.”
Besides, Rao said that the government is working out a comprehensive code for the real estate sector and is in talks with the developers body CREDAI. “The proposed code will be on the lines of Green Buildings,” he revealed. Earlier, Chief Secretary Rajiv Sarma presented the government plans to support the industry. He said the government is working out various lucrative plans from supplying power and water without any restrictions and explained about the single window scheme.
