Gujarat govt starts new Investment Facilitation Centre

Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat

The Government of Gujarat has constituted a State Level Investment Facilitation Centre (IFC) cell at the office of Industries Commissioner at Udyog Bhavan in Gandhinagar. It will work as single point Nodal Agency to facilitate investment in Gujarat.

The IFC will monitor disposal of application in accordance to the time limit stipulated by the high level Committee headed by the Chief Secretary. The IFC will provide Common application on it’s portal shortly.

The investor shall have to submit the application on IFC portal with copy of relevant documents. Simultaneously Investor will submit self attested hard copy at IFC. IFC will circulate e-copy of the application to concerned departments through portal. Relevant department will designate a Nodal officer to process application received from IFC and monitor its progress.

The Nodal officer shall have to forward e-copy of application to concern officer and officer concern will take a print of the application along with documents to process the same. The processing officer may call for additional information or documents, if required from the applicant through mail under intimation to Nodal officer of its department and IFC. Nodal officer shall be responsible to submit the status report of pending application by every Monday to IFC.

Industries Commissioner will take a review meeting once in a month with Nodal Officers to expedite the process and submit status report to Chief Secretary with copy to Secretary of concern department.

The details of delayed cases and interdepartmental issues will be submitted to Industries &Mines department and also placed before the Committee. Unresolved issues will be placed before the Chief Minister’s Cabinet Committee for Industrial Promotion and Monitoring.

The Cell will become a repository of information regarding state infrastructure, information about investment application processes and issues being raised across the industry. It will also provide information related to orders, rules & regulations applicable for setting up of the project. The IFC Cell will be provided all infrastructural facilities including hardware and software for operation of cell.

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