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INDIAN STATE : KERALA
Policy Framework
Industrial & Commercial Policy 2007
Vision
To convert Kerala into an investment friendly destination
and to achieve consistently high economic growth with
specific thrust to social objectives, without adversely
affecting ecology and environment and to create employment
opportunities for the people in Kerala and ensuring
them fair wages.
Objectives
- Convert Kerala into a favoured destination for Manufacturing,
Agro Processing, Health Services, Knowledge based
Industries and Services.
- Enabling growth, revival and diversification of
State Level Public Enterprises.
- Strengthening and modernization of Traditional Industries.
- Accelerating the fast growing Services and Commerce
sector.
- To develop Kerala as a global centre of excellence
with state of the art education and skill sets and
preparing a pool of multi skilled, technically competent
individuals and organizations.
- Creation of additional employment of 5 lakh persons
in the manufacturing and service sectors.
- To sustain industrial and economic growth by facilitating
accelerated flow of investment.
Strategy
To meet the above objectives the strategy for industrialization
of the State during the policy period will be as follows:
- To develop Industrial infrastructure facilities
in various locations of the State through KSIDC, KINFRA,
DIC, SIDCO and Private Sector.
- To encourage Industrial Corridors / Cluster Development
in potential locations.
- To restructure and retain potentially viable State
Level Public Enterprises (SLPEs).
- To focus on Agro Based Industries & products.
- To promote / help facilitate establishment of specialized
skill development institutions at key locations suitable
for the manufacturing, knowledge based industries.
- To promote local entrepreneurship through institutional
mechanism and mass participation
- To work in coordination with Chamber of Commerce
/ industry associations and other trade bodies to
have continuous feed back on the state of industries
and commerce and the support measures required.
- To improve investment climate through investment
protection, decentralization, facilitation and by
creating more growth opportunities
- To attract Foreign Direct Investment with specific
criteria.
- To ensure time bound clearances from all Departments
/ Agencies for speedy implementation of Projects.
- Exploiting mineral wealth of Kerala in a scientific
manner through Public Sector Enterprises.
- To move towards a low tax, high growth regime.
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IT policy
Objectives
In line with this broad strategy, the Government have
set the following immediate objectives for the promotion
of the IT industry in the State.
- To establish Kerala as a leading IT destination
in the country within the next five years.
- To provide a nurturing and enabling environment
conducive to the vigorous growth of the local IT industry
in the State.
- To significantly enhance direct and indirect employment
creation in the IT sector.
- To attain a minimum growth level of 100% every year
in IT.
- To significantly accelerate the levels of investment
inflows including foreign capital into the hardware,
software and ITES sectors.
- To aggressively promote the State as the destination
of choice for emerging IT business opportunities including
IT Enabled Services, new media products and E-services.
To establish ITES as the definitive core competence
of the State.
- To develop Kochi as an international media and ICT
hub.
- To consolidate and expand the Techno park, Trivandrum
as a leading software and HR Centre in the region.
- To provide the physical and institutional environment
for the growth of SOHO and decentralized IT businesses.
Policy initiatives
- Creating an appropriate pro-business, pro-enterprise,
legal, regulatory and commercial framework to facilitate
the rapid growth of the IT industry in the state.
- Establishing Kerala as a global center for excellence
in Human Resources, through the creation of a large
pool of diverse, multi-skilled technically competent
manpower in the State and
- Establishing an internationally competitive business
infrastructure and environment for the IT industry
in the State, on par with the best facilities and
practices worldwide.
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Labour Policy
Objective
- Fostering an enabling environment for rapid employment
generation through enhanced private and public investment,
in order to achieve the goal of creating 15 lakhs
of new jobs in the coming five years.
- Retraining and rehabilitation of retrenched labour
in closed and sick units.
- Improving working conditions, providing decent wages
and basic lifeline Social Security for workers, especially
in the unorganised sector.
- Minimizing adversarial Labour relations and providing
Labour market security, employment security, work
security, and income security for the working population.
Vision
This policy is the statement of the concerns of this
government for the welfare and protection of labour
and to endeavour to empower them and improve their quality
of life. Increased production, productivity coupled
with a harmonious and peaceful labour relations and
a new work culture only will create a conducive climate
for rapid industrial investment and growth. This will
ensure the successful solutions to the twin problems
of retrenchment of labour and creation of new jobs for
the unemployed. Government is also committed to providing
labour market security, income security and decent working
conditions for the working population. This labour policy
aims to carry forward these objectives. These aims can
be attained only if there is tripartite and mutually
beneficial partnership between employers, workers and
the Government.
Labour Policy Highlights
- Creative measures to attract public and private
investment.
- 15 lakh new jobs in the coming five years.
- A unified and consolidated legislation for social
security schemes.
- New Social security schemes for workers in the unorganised
sector.
- Social security cards for workers.
- Unified and beneficial management of funds of Welfare
Boards.
- Reprioritisation of allocation of funds to benefit
vulnerable workers.
- Model employee-employer relationships.
- Long term settlements based on productivity.
- Vital industries and establishments declared as
`public utilities`.
- Special conciliation mechanism for projects with
investments of Rs.150 crores or more.
- Industrial Relations committees in more sectors.
- Labour Law reforms in tune with the times. Empowered
body of experts to suggest required changes.
- Referenda for recognition of trade unions.
- Statutory amendments for expediting and streamlining
the mechanism of Labour Judiciary.
- Amendments to Industrial Disputes Act in tune with
the times.
- Efficient functioning of Labour Department.
- More labour sectors under Minimum Wages Act.
- Child labour act to be aggressively enforced.
- Modern medical facilities for workers.
- Rehabilitation packages for displaced workers.
- Restructuring in functioning of employment exchanges.
Computerization and updating of database.
- Revamping of curriculum and course content in industrial
training.
- Joint cell of labour department and industries department
to study changes in laws and rules.
- Kerala Institute of Labour & Employment to be
upgraded.
- Policy progress monitoring team to review progress
of implementation of policy.
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Kerala Bio-Technology policy
Objectives and goals:
The Biotechnology policy for Kerala is designed to
catalyse the development and application of Biotechnology,
taking advantage of the state's resources and emphasizing
its specific needs while meeting global requirements.
The policy is aimed to ensure the rapid exploitation
of pipeline technologies and opportunities available
in the state to products and processes and to promote
the sustained build-up of an elite knowledge cadre and
knowledge base through the strengthening and creation
of educational and Research & Development (R&D)
institutions, establishing infrastructure and putting
in place administrative, regulatory, legal and financial
framework conducive for investment and growth of Biotechnology
enterprises, for the economic development and human
welfare.
The specific objectives and goals
are:
- Create a biotech knowledge base and human resources
by establishing world-class centres of education and
R&D in biotechnology by upgrading existing institutions
and/or organizing new entities in the public and private
sectors (eg. on the lines of Birla Institute of Technology,
Pilani).
- Apply biotechnology tools to:
- enhance the value with adequate assurance of
quality in the State's export-oriented resources
such as spices and related plantation crops, seafoods
and marine resources;
- upgrade productivity and evolve new application
in rubber, coconut, tuber crops and develop novel
internationally competitive products;
- ensure the sustainable and eco-friendly exploitation
of the State's forest, animal and marine wealth;
- boost the State's renowned health care practices
of Ayurveda by synergising traditional knowledge
with the scientific validation and technical product
profiling and clinical data base and by evolving
means to conserve and substantially use one of
world's most-valued biodiversity treasures located
in the State.
- promote traditional tribal and ethnic knowledge
in medicine and other areas of human welfare by
scientific validation and facilitating intellectual
property rights.
- develop recombinant DNA and other modern technologies
to combat the major health hazards of the State
such as cancer, diabetes and cardio-vascular and
other physiological disorders; to develop diagnostics
and vaccines for overall healthcare as well as
to protect the State's agriculture, spice, plantation
and forest crops, from biotic and a biotic stresses.
- enhance the quality of the environment and promote
sustainable development;
- provide an ambience with a package of guidelines
for financial support and incentives, legal and
labour reforms as well as institutional autonomies
needed for the healthy, efficient and competitive
growth of biotechnology knowledge base and industry
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