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GOVERNMENT OF PUDUCHERRY

DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE

(G.O. Ms. No. 11/2016/Ind.A, Puducherry, dated 14th March 2017)

NOTIFICATION

Industrial Policy, 2016 has been notified by Government of Puducherry vide

G.O. Ms. No. 7/2016/lnd.A, Puducherry, dated 4-10-2016 with the vision to create

Prosperous Puducherry through accelerated industrial growth for the overall

economic development and better quality of life of the people of Union territory of

Puducherry through proactive services and effective administration.

2. Industrial growth plays a major role in the economy of the State. In the

present scenario of competitiveness, there is need to provide conducive

environment by the Administration to the entrepreneurs to ease their efforts in

setting up of industrial units in the shortest possible time. A single window

clearances for prospective entrepreneurs is apt to deliver the services of the

Government with more transparency.

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3. Procedure for filing applications.— (i) The entrepreneur shall apply

in common application form through Puducherry Industrial Guidance Bureau (PIGB)

on the Industries Department online portal (industry.puducherry.gov.in).

(ii) A copy of common application form along with prescribed

attachments, building plan, etc., shall be submitted to the Industrial Guidance

Bureau for onward transmission to the respective departments.

(iii) All competent authorities will be provided online access to the

portal through secure user id and password for processing all the online

applications forwarded to them.

(iv) The competent authority may ask for additional information from

the applicant only once and within 15 days from the date of receipt of the

application under intimation to the Industrial Guidance Bureau.

(v) The competent authority shall process application and communicate

the decision - either approval or rejection with comments within the prescribed time-limit.

(vi) The approval can be downloaded.

4. Common Application Form (CAF).— The entrepreneur shall apply in

the Common Application Form to the Puducherry Industrial Guidance Bureau (PIGB).

After scrutiny of the application form, the PIGB shall forward the application with

relevant documents to the concerned Departments within three working days. Then

the proposals shall be placed before the PIGB/High Level Empowered Committee

for consideration for issue of in-principle clearance within 10 days of receipt of

application.

5. Fast Track Mechanism.— Each Department shall set up a fast track

mechanism and ensure that the time-limits prescribed for issue of clearances are

followed scrupulously. Once the in-principle approval is accorded by the

Puducherry Industrial Guidance Bureau/High Level Empowered Committee Meeting,

the PIGB shall communicate the approval to the concerned departments.

6. Timelines.— In order to expedite the issue of all the necessary

clearances required for each project as mandated under the various Acts/Rules

relating to the various agencies, the Government has decided to issue such

clearances of all the concerned departments/agencies within a period of 30 days

from the date of receipt of application by the concerned departments from the

Puducherry Industrial Guidance Bureau.

7. Puducherry Industrial Guidance Bureau (PIGB).— The principal

objective of PIGB is to facilitate the entrepreneurs in obtaining clearances from

various Departments/Agencies in a time bound and efficient manner for setting up

of industrial units.

(i) The PIGB shall be headed by the Director of Industries and Commerce

with 'Nodal Officers' and 'Escort Officers' as members.

(ii) Assistant Directors in the Directorate of Industries and Commerce

and District Industries Centre shall function as 'Escort Officers' for different

categories of Industries. They shall ensure that the applications received for setting

up of a unit in Puducherry are processed speedily and put into operations within

the time frame. They shall be the interface between the Entrepreneurs and

Departments/Agencies concerned.

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(iii) The second in command of the respective Municipality/Commune

Panchayat, Chief Inspector of Factories, Town Planning Department, Pondicherry

Planning Authority, Pondicherry Pollution Control Committee, Revenue Department,

Agriculture Department, Labour Department, Electricity Department and other

concerned departments where the industrial units require clearances shall be the

'Nodal Officers' pertaining to their Departments. They shall ensure that the

applications received in their Departments for setting up of any unit are processed

and disposed of without any undue delay. They shall be the interface between the

Department and the PIGB.

(iv) The Deputy Director, Department of Industries and Commerce shall

be the Member-Secretary of PIGB. He shall ensure that all applications received by

the PIGB are processed in a timely manner. He shall monitor through the 'Escort

Officers' and ensure that the cases are not delayed and are decided speedily.

Wherever bottlenecks are noticed, he shall bring it to the notice of the Director of

Industries and Commerce and the Secretary (Industries and Commerce) for remedial

action.

8. Powers to PIGB.— The PIGB shall scrutinise the common application

forms received in respect of Green category projects of micro and small enterprises

and give in-principle clearance. The PIGB shall meet every week and consider the

applications.

9. PIGB Online Portal.— All concerned Departments/Agencies shall

update the status of issue of clearances in the PIGB online portal.

10. High Level Empowered Committee.— To consider the applications of

medium and large scale industries and Orange and Red category of micro and small

industries, a High Level Empowered Committee consisting of the following Members

is constituted to issue in-principle clearance to the industrial enterprises and to

review the status of the issue of the clearances by the concerned Departments:-

(1) Hon'ble Minister for Industries and Commerce

. .

Chairman

(2) Secretary to Government (Ind. and Com.)

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Vice-Chairman

(3) Director, Department of Science, Technology and

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Member

Environment.

(4) Director, Local Administration Department

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Member

(5) Director, Agriculture Department

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Member

(6) Labour Commissioner

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Member

(7) Superintending Engineer-I, Electricity Department

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Member

(8) Chief Town Planner, Town and Country Planning

. .

Member

Department.

(9) Member-Secretary, Pondicherry Planning Authority

. .

Member

(10) Director of Industries and Commerce

. .

Member-

Secretary.

(i) The High Level Empowered Committee shall meet once in 15 days to

issue "in-principle clearance".

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(ii) All the common application forms received through Puducherry

Industrial Guidance Bureau (PIGB) except Green category projects of micro and small

enterprises shall be placed before the High Level Empowered Committee for

consideration and clearance. The in-principle clearance for Green category projects

of Micro and Small enterprises will be issued by PIGB within 10 days.

(iii) The Chairman is empowered to co-opt additional members/invite

experts, depending on the nature of projects to be considered for issue of

clearances.

11. Powers of High Level Empowered Committee.— Once a decision is

taken in the High Level Empowered Committee Meeting, it shall be obligatory on

the part of the department/agency concerned to comply with the decision without

any deviation and within the prescribed overall timeline. All the members shall attend

the meeting positively either in person or deputing an officer who is competent to

take decision on the proposal.

12. Deemed approval.— All the departments shall process the applications

simultaneously without insisting for the production of other departments clearance

and adhere to the timelines mentioned in the annexure, failing which such clearances

shall be deemed to have been issued.

13. The Department of Industries and Commerce shall appraise the

progress/functioning of the Committee/PIGB to Chief Secretary on a quarterly basis.

(By order of the Lieutenant-Governor)

G. MALAR KANNAN,

Additional Secretary

(Industries and Commerce).

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ANNEXURE

Timeline for Clearances and Approvals by Various Departments

SI.

Item/Activity

Department/

Time limit/

No.

Organization

(working

days)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Pre Establishment Stage :

Forwarding of common application

District Industries Centre.

to the concerned departments.

Issue of NOC and Consent to

Pondicherry Pollution Control

establish.

Committee.

Site clearance

Town and Country Planning

Department.

Building plan approval

Puducherry Planning Authority

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Approval of factory building and

Inspectorate of Factories and

machinery lay-out.

Boilers.

Permission for land-use conversion/ Town and Country Planning

ground water clearance (outside Department/Agriculture Department.

the industrial estate).

Clearance under Revenue Acts Revenue Department

(if required).

Licence, (if required)

Food and Drugs Administration

Statutory permission for

Municipality/Commune Panchayat.

establishment of the unit.

Energising Power Supply :

(a) Low Tension (LT)

Electricity Department

(b) High Tension (HT)-(subject

Electricity Department

to compliance of procedure).

Post Establishment Stage:

Licence

Municipality/Commune Panchayat.

Factory Licence

Inspectorate of Factories.

Air and Water Consent for Pondicherry Pollution Control

operation of the unit.

Committee.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)