INDIAN STATE : HARYANA

Policy Framework

Industrial Policy 2005

The state has laid down the following objectives of the Industrial Policy

• Re-establish industry as a key driver of economic growth.
  
• To create wealth for the residents of the state and improve the quality of their life.
  
• Generate employment and entrepreneurial opportunities across all sectors of the economy.
  
• Facilitate spatial dispersal of economic activities particularly in economically and socially backward regions of the state.
  
• To ensure sustainable development through investments in key sectors of economy

Strategy of the Policy

The State Government intends to realize the objectives of the policy by emphasizing a coordinated development strategy in mission mode approach. The strategy proposed by the state is outlined below

• Develop economic hubs through infrastructural initiatives.
  
• Encourage public-private partnership in infrastructure in infrastructure projects.
  
• Focus on economic activities enjoying a comparative advantage in the state in general and develop the food processing ICT and frontier technologies in particular.
  
• Promote mega projects with economic spin-off potential, particularly in backward regions.
  
• Adopt sector-specific approach, providing incentives and infrastructural support, for the synergetic growth of key enterprises.
• Develop services sector especially tourism, transport, education, healthcare and financial services.
  
• Focus on development and support to the small and medium enterprises.
  Enhance export-competitiveness and enable Compounded Annual Growth Rate of 20 per cent.
  
• Create investor-focused approach in administrative process and bring about efficiency, transparency and accountability using modern technological and management solutions.
  
• Strengthen the grievance redressal mechanism.
  
• Human resource development by establishing strategic linkages between the industry and technical institutions to meet future manpower requirements.
• Continue with fiscal reforms and prudent public finance management to release resources for deployment in key public investment areas.

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Information Technology Policy-2000

The State Government of Haryana recognizes the role of It as an effective tool in catalyzing economic activity, in efficient governance and in developing human resource. The vision of the information technology policy is to transform Haryana into an IT driven economy.

Objectives of the Policy

The government strives to make Haryana an IT driven economy by achieving the following objectives:

• Upgrading the standard and quality of administration, particularly in social and public services sector through a process of modernisation and rationalization of the administrative set up,
  
• Providing public centered, efficient and cost-effective Government
  
• Extensive percolation of IT literacy and education in the State,
  
• Promoting investments in IT industry
  
• Encouraging private sector initiative in IT related infrastructure and services
  
• Increasing the share of IT in State Gross Domestic Product
  
• Generating IT related employment opportunities, and
  
• Enhancing earning capacity of the residents thereby ensuring a better quality of life.

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SEZ Policy

Governor of Haryana has formulated this policy to facilitate acquisition of land for private deployment and in public-private partnership for setting up of Special Economic Zones, Technology Cities, Industrial Parks and Industrial Model Townships etc. this policy will come into force with immediate effect.

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Labour Policy 2006

The policy has been devised in order to ensure the implementation of labour laws and create an enabling environment for enhancing productivity, competitiveness and labour welfare.

Aims of the Policy

• Evolve a mutually and increasingly beneficial partnership between employers and workers.
  
• To help create conditions in which workers can make their maximum contribution towards increasing productivity while their rights are protected and their exploitation is prevented.
  
• To ensure the welfare of workers along with economic progress and stability.
  
• To help the employers and workers to cooperate continuously and resolve their differences amicably through social dialogue
  
• Foster peaceful and in-house settlement of disputes.

Objectives

• To facilitate the growth of industry in Haryana by fostering harmonious industrial relations.
  
• To ensure social justice with productivity and growth of industry.
  
• To promote industrial health and safety
  
• To implement labour laws for ensuring proper working conditions and labour standards.
  
• To introduce new labour welfare measures for enhancing the quality of life of the work force.
  
• To create ever improving conditions for women workers by following policies, which take into account their special needs at the workplace.
  
• To eliminate employment of all forms of child labour through identification and rehabilitation.
  
• To energise Vigilance Committees at District and Sub Division level for identification
  
• Release and rehabilitation of Bonded Labour.
  
• To provide and improve quality health care to workers through the ESI run hospitals and ensure their future security through implementing the Employees Provident Fund Scheme.
  
• To strengthen the conciliation machinery towards achieving the objectives of a Harmonious worker- management relationship, keeping in view the changing economic scenario.
  
• To continuously strengthen and facilitate the functioning of the Labour Courts, in cases where conciliation has failed.
  
• To train and retrain its employees and officers so that they are better equipped to perform their duties.
  
• To work in a transparent and time bound manner in dealing with approvals required under various labour laws.
  
• To work in a transparent and time bound manner in dealing with approvals required under various labour laws
  
• To work towards creating an atmosphere wherein both workers and management perform their legally laid down roles, which will, in turn, contribute to the economic growth of the state.

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