Cabinet likely to take final call on National Investment Board this week

03 Dec 2012 Evaluate

The Union Cabinet is likely decide on the proposal to set up a National Investment Board (NIB) this week, that would focus on decisions of approval/clearances of projects with investment of Rs 1,000 crore and above. This development comes at a time when the World Bank, in its report ‘Doing Business 2013’, has ranked India 132 in the list of 185 countries. In its report, India is placed far behind then other low economy developing countries.

The proposal is high on the agenda of the government, it is expected that the Cabinet in its next meeting may take a call on this.  The proposed body will be a Cabinet Committee with the Prime Minister as the Chairman. Currently, many large projects, particularly those related to infrastructure in public and private sectors, have been held up on account of inordinate delays in obtaining necessary approvals from various Central Ministries or Departments.

With this NIB, the government aims to facilitate and ensure accelerated and time bound grant of various licenses’ permissions and approvals as the NIB mechanism will be triggered in case of the failure of the competent authorities to act in time. Further, the NIB would be an equivalent to a Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI) and it will not in any way be a substitute to the existing Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB).

Moreover, all the powers of CCI then would be transferred to the Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) except for those projects notified under the proposed NIB. Further, the final name for the proposed mechanism has been left to the Cabinet to decide.

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