The ground work on the ambitious National Manufacturing Policy (NMP) is likely to start as early as August this year, as per Union Minister of Commerce and Industry, Anand Sharma. As per the minister, much progress has been made in the area of land acquisition for setting up the National Investment and Manufacturing Zones (NIMZ) and the ministry will soon move towards setting them up.
The NMP was launched earlier this year with much fanfare. Even though the Cabinet had approved the NMP in October 2011, substantial groundwork was yet to start. The main objective of the policy was to raise the share of manufacturing sector in the gross domestic product to 25% from the present 15-16%, by the end of the decade. The NMP offers a number of fiscal incentives besides having a special focus on the small and medium industry sectors. The government through the policy aims to create 100 million new jobs by 2025 and develop new mega industrial zones.
The policy so far had been stuck due to failure of the labour, environment and finance ministries to issue notifications on the new policy. The most important and controversial aspect of the NMP was the creation of large-scale manufacturing zones. The first phase of the National Investment and Manufacturing Zone had been planned along the Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor; however the Labour and Environment Ministries locked horns with the Department of Industry over the issue of certain relaxations of labour and environmental laws in the new manufacturing zones. Sharma is now hopeful that all departments will notify the policy by the end of March.
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