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| Forgetting plight of existing IT parks CM demands special grants for electronic industry | | | Early Times Report
new delhi, Aug 29: Without even bothering about the existing IT parks in the State which are already defunct because of the lack of opportunities and official apathy, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah Monday sought Special Central grants to the State to promote green field clusters and harness the potential for growth and development of electronic industry.
Omar Abdullah should have spared a few of his precious moments to address the problems of the existing IT parks in the State which were inaugurated with fanfare a few years back and are now defunct and begging for official attention.
Incentives were given to some blue-eyed IT professionals and those were pocketed by the lucky ones among the IT professionals with the connivance of some greedy politicians and bureaucrats. After this, those IT facilities were slowly allowed to die an ignominious death.
People looked forward to those IT parks to function as torch bearers in the field of IT industry in the State and today the same professionals are waiting for another doze of incentives.
Does the Chief Minister mean to get special grants to dole them out again to the same blue-eyed professionals who do nothing in the fiercely competitive field of IT except wait as vultures for their pound of dead flesh?
The Chief Minister said creation of electronic products manufacturing clusters would be an important initiative in nurturing and developing environment friendly and employment generating entrepreneurship sector.
"Jammu and Kashmir is full of promises in this sector and the State Government has already initiated establishment of electronic industrial estate at Rangrath, Srinagar and setting up of a Software Technology Park over 20 acres at Ompora, Budgam is in the process", he said adding that similar facility is intended to be created in the Ghatti Industrial Area in Kathua which is under development.
"Our focus is on creating substantial job market for youth in the State as such entrepreneurship development along with skills enhancement of youth is receiving priority attention", he said underlining the need for wholehearted Central support in this regard.
Omar Abdullah said that State has in place a Nodal Agency for single window clearance and inter-developmental coordination. "This makes land, power and other amenities within the State control available to the entrepreneurs at concessional rates", he said adding that this sector has been declared as a thrust area under Industrial Policy. He invited investors to invest in the State for symbiotic benefits to the State and the industrialists.
The plight of the various industrial estates within the State does not even deserve a comment to tell the public what their present status is. Industrial estates have become 'real estate dole outs and largesses' for favoured persons who are allotted these prime properties and days after such allotments are made by the industries department, these properties are sold at high premium by the allottees without establishing any units of their own. |
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