Early Times Report
Jammu, Apr 9: In a significant decision, Divisional Level Single Window Clearance Committee of the Department of Industries and Commerce today cancelled 103.5 Kanals of land allotted to 34 provisionally registered units at Kathua and Bari Brahmana (BB) in Jammu region. "The cancellation has been ordered as they failed to establish their units, official said.
The decision to this effect was taken at a meeting of the Committee held under the Chairmanship of Director Industries and Commerce, Jammu, Dr Abdul Rashid. Committee took serious note of the allotted land having left unused and idle by the allottee entrepreneurs. After detailed discussions, a decision was taken to cancel the allotments on 101 Kanals of land at Kathua and 2.5 Kanals of land at Bari Brahmana in the Jammu division. 'The land, which had been unnecessarily locked and blocked, will be allotted to genuine prospective entrepreneurs in the next meeting of the Committee. The Committed also cleared the cases of 15 entrepreneurs and allotted 40.12 Kanals of land to them for establishing their units. These units are likely to generate employment for 226 persons and will result in investment to plant and machinery to the tune of about Rs 7.32 crores. Among others present in this Divisional Level Single Window Clearance Committee meeting were Showkat Chowdhary Regional Director, J&K State Pollution Control, R L Tikoo Managing Director, J&K, SICOP, Sanjeev Rathore Superintending Engineer, M&RE Circle-Kathua, Ramesh Chander Menia Superintending Engineer, M&RE Circle Batote, Ms Rifat Kohli Joint Director (M&P), Industries & Commerce, A.K.Chibber Executive Engineer,(ED-II),PDD Jammu and Vikram Gupta General Manager, J&K, SIDCO. |
