By Our Staff Reporter
Dehradun, 17 Oct: Additional Chief Secretary (ACS) Radha Raturi chaired a meeting at the Secretariat here, today, of all the related departments and directed officials to take measures for 100 percent grounding of the MOUs signed by the investors with the Uttarakhand Government.
Top officers of the Housing Department, Revenue Department, Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board, Finance Department and Planning Department were present at the meeting. Raturi directed them to immediately resolve the problems emerging at the ground level. She also directed the officials during the meeting held to review progress concerning Single Window System and Ease of Doing Business to deal with the pending applications for investment in a timely and positive manner. She instructed the Housing Department that information about land use change, map approval and land related problems being faced by investors from all the districts of the state should be immediately submitted to the government so that any pending issues can be solved effectively. She also issued instructions to gather information regarding the cases pending at the district level and present them in the upcoming meeting. She directed the Revenue Department and the Housing Department to work in coordination in this regard.
The ACS instructed the officials of the Industries Department to organise workshops with nodal officers of all departments for the grounding of the MOUs being signed as part of upcoming Uttarakhand Global Investors’ Summit 2023 and to intensify efforts as soon as possible. She directed all the related departments to dispose of the applications pending on the single window portal as soon as possible.
The Member Secretary of Uttarakhand Pollution Control Board informed her during the meeting that all the applications are being disposed of in a timely manner. The applications pending on the Single Window Portal are due to technical problems. These would be resolved as soon as possible in coordination with the Industries Department. Instructions have been given by the ACS to conduct a separate review of the Revenue Department.
On this occasion, Principal Secretary RK Sudhanshu, Finance Secretary V Shanmugam, Additional Secretaries Vijay Kumar Jogdande, Dev Krishna Tiwari, Atar Singh, and other departmental officers were also present.
