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| Purchase preference can save industries, but Govt does not prefer | | |
CHAMAN KAUL
JAMMU: The Government orders are being brazenly violated by none other than the government departments itself.
Though the Government had issued strict orders for given preference to the SSI Units while making purchases by the Government departments, but the story on ground is all together different.
According the order No 21-Ind of 2004 dated 27 January 2004 the state government in order to save the dying industrial setup made it clear that various departments engaged for purchasing goods must buy from the local industries. But despite being quality and rates comparatively reasonable, the departments refrain to purchase the products manufactured by local industries. Sources in the industry sector revealed that almost all the products being manufactured are registered under Bureau of Indian Standard (BIS), besides duly marked with ISI still government departments did turn to local industrial produce, the reasons are obvious. “Government should evolve a concrete policy regarding purchases by departments as only framing orders could in no way be helpful. The main thing of any order depends upon the intensity of its implementation” said Association of Small Scale Industries President Tejwant Singh Reen. There should be no compromise in quality and the price of the product as compared to the products being manufactured by the industries out side the state, he added.
Not only this, the non availability of land and infrastructure is concerning issue as the existing infrastructure is about 30 years old. On one side government is insisting for expanding the industrial set up in the Jammu region to generate revenue and employment, as in Kashmir Valley scope of industrialization are less, but on the other hand basic needs like land, infrastructure, lanes, bye-lanes, roads, electricity and water are still a distant dream for the industrialists, an industrialist said.
“There are so many parameters, addressing upon which could generate huge revenue and employment provided government turns serious towards industrial policy, said Kamal Kaul an industrialist. When Roshi Act could cover residential, commercial and agricultural land then why not industry as giving ownership rights to the industrialists, healthy revenue and good number of employment could be yielded in the better interest of government as well as society.
“The Association of Industrialists has forwarded memorandum of suggestions to the government through Finance Minister recently in which it has been suggested that adequate funds in 2009-10 budget should be allocated for purchasing land to be identified for the new industrial estate in Jammu as saturation in the existing industrial areas namely Bari Brahmana, Digyana, Gangyal and Birpur had made it difficult for the industrialist to run their units” added Reen.
Minister for Industries and Commerce Surjit Singh Salathia, while speaking Early Times, said that all these proposals are in agenda and the ministry is going to organize a meeting with industrialists as well as with the heads of various departments in couple of days to sort out things in the better interest of departments and industrialists.
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