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INDIAN STATE : MIZORAM
Policy Framework
The Bamboo policy of Mizoram 2002
Aims and objectives
Considering the Ecological significance and vast economic
potential of Bamboo in the State, aims and objectives
of the Bamboo Policy shall be as under:
- Protection and preservation of mountain ecology;
protecting the mountain slopes by affording protection
to bamboo forests and bamboo regrowth areas for sustained
productivity and environmental security for the people.
- Protection, conservation of rich bio-diversity
associated with bamboo forests and regrowth areas
and their future development.
- Sustainable development and utilization of Bamboo
resources through scientific management.
- Promotion of private bamboo plantation (Individual
and community owned) as the key thrust area for future
economy of the State.
- Promotion of bamboo cultivation in the homestead
and as a cash crop and an essential component of agro-
forestry to generate income and to meet the contingent
need of rural households in the state.
- Improvement of bamboo productivity in farm and
forestry sector by use of biotechnology and improved
management practices thus making bamboo plantation
a profitable and attractive economic enterprise for
securing adequate return on investment.
- Promotion of bamboo based industries at cottage
level, small scale, medium and large scale for utilizing
the available resources at a sustainable level for
generating assured income.
- Revitalisation and promotion of local traditional
Bamboo craft and art with improved technology, design
and market linked trade for value added items for
export through industrialized mode of production.
- Promotion of bamboo sector development as an essential
component of rural development strategy linked with
forestry and agri-business sector in the State promoting
rural employment.
- Promotion of bamboo as an essential wood substitute
by increasing bamboo production. Promotion of enterprises
manufacturing bamboo based products and wood substitutes
thereby reducing pressure on wrests and reducing wood
deficiency in the state.
Promotion of awareness and understanding of bamboo
as "Green Gold" among farmers, traders, industry
men in the state with a view to utilizing its full potential
and to galvanise the rural and industrial sector in
the state.
Approach to Bamboo sector development
- Conservation of bamboo-diversity, bamboo-germplasm
and preservation of mountain ecology.
- Use of Bamboo forests and bamboo regrowth areas
for affording protection in critical watersheds, to
human habitations, civil engineering structures like
national and state highways, rural roads and hydropower
projects, etc.
- Regulating bamboo-exploitation in jhum regrowth
and jhum areas by involving Village Councils/Village
Forest Development Committees (VFDCs) and facilitating
gradual change over to agro-forestry management and
practices.
- Sustainable management and use of dedicated bamboo
forests and bamboo regrowth areas for providing essential
bamboo materials for traditional use and commercial
use in bamboo based industries, enterprises, handicraft
sector and for bamboo trade and commerce.
- Promoting bamboo cultivation in homestead, agro-
forestry sector as a cash crop using improved high
yielding bamboo species for income generation and
supporting bamboo based enterprises and bamboo trade.
- Promoting private bamboo plantation as key thrust
area for achieving the objectives enshrined in the
policy. The focus will be on developing the sector
as market driven and people oriented.
- Providing supportive administrative, institutional
framework to facilitate all round bamboo sector development
by evolving a framework of incentives, subsidy, technical
and professional support in regard to planting material,
improved plantation technology, processing facilities
and support services like training, credit, marketing,
export facilitation etc.
- Identification of select bamboo species for plantation
raising and providing raw-materials to select industries
like bamboo mat board, flooring and edible shoots
having high demand in domestic and export market and
adoption of improved technology and market & export
linkages and supportive investments to promote such
plantation & processing enterprises in the State.
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IT policy
Vision
To make Mizoram the most IT literate state in the country
and a global center of excellence in IT Education, Training,
Research, and Development. This vision translates into
a mission. The vision objectives are:
- Employment Generation
- Creation of Wealth
- IT led economic growth
To accomplish its vision, the Govt. of Mizoram will
play the role of pro-active facilitator, pro -active
motivator, pro-active promoter, in order to spread IT
to the masses speedily, and to ensure speedy IT led
economic development.
Objectives
The following are the objectives of Mizoram IT Policy:
- Promotion of IT Industry, IT software, IT Products,
and IT Services within the state.
- Promoting IT for the masses.
- Setting up a goal of achieving total computer literacy
in Mizoram
by the year-2010.
- Improvement of efficiency and productivity in governance.
- Improvement of transparency and responsive-attitude
in
governance.
- Generation of IT -skilled manpower and IT capacity-building
in
the State.
- Promotion of IT skills and IT know-how among the
youth of
Mizoram enabling them to engage in gainful self-employment
and in IT related activities.
- Propelling growth of IT and IT related activities.
- Providing of people-friendly interfacing between
Government
and citizen.
- Providing better information and interactive services
to tourists,
businessman and entrepreneurs.
- Dissemination of knowledge to farmers, agriculturists
and rural
population of Mizoram.
- Improvement of revenue assessment and collection
mechanism.
- Improvement of general employment opportunity and
employment generation.
- Widespread use of IT in educational Institutions.
- Development of capabilities of Governance as a
catalyst for
economic development by collaborative action and learning.
- Proliferation of Internet, E-Governance, E-Commerce
and E-Education.
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Power Policy
Objectives
With a view to promote generation of grid-grade power
through Non-Conventional Energy Sources in the context
of non polluting, renewable inputs like solar, wind,
small hydel, biomass and other wastes, the Government
of Mizoram has adopted this policy.
Operative period:
- Not withstanding the provisions in the existing
Revenue Acts and Rules, land lease can be considered
for a period not exceeding 99 years, based on merit
or life of the project, as the case may be.
- This policy shall come into operation from the
date of its publication in the
official gazette and will remain in force until superseded
or modified by
another order.
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New Industrial Policy 2002
Aims and objectives:
The main aim of this Industrial Policy of Mizoram,
2000 was to engineer rapid growth in the state by industrialization
of the state to a sustainable extent for the fulfillment
of the following objectives:
- Enrichment of industrial growth potential lying
in the sectors like agriculture, horticulture, forest
and establishment of proper linkage amongst the industries
based on resources available in these sectors.
- Formation of suitable mechanism for attracting
and growth of capital formation in Mizoram by taking
full advantage of the policy changes initiated by
the Central Government in respect of industry, trade
and commerce from time to time.
- Identifying and develop entrepreneurial and managerial
skills by providing suitable training programmes at
District, Sub-Division and Block levels and to create
facilities for training of industrial labour on sustained
basis.
- Ensuring balanced sectoral and regional growth by
promoting industries under all sectors.
- Promotion and modernization of textile industry
including traditional Sericulture and Handloom and
Handicraft sectors by induction of improved design,
quality and technology so as to make textile industry
a potential export-oriented sector.
- Encouraging joint ventures between local entrepreneurs
and industrialists from outside the State on selective
basis.
· Encouraging joint venture from outside the
State with State's own public sector undertakings
and with resourceful local entrepreneurs.
- Encouraging self-employment especially among technically
qualified unemployed persons of the State for generating
additional employment opportunities in the State.
- Allowing convergence of activities of all government
agencies so as to make a concerted approach towards
industrial growth.
- Identifying sick industries and take measures for
the revival of such units that have the potential
to turn around.
- Making Mizoram a major center for the growth of
fruit and food based industries by encouraging plantation
and growth of different kind of livestocks in the
state.
- Making major entry in bamboo-based industries by
optimum utilization of bamboo resources of Mizoram.
- Developing Mizoram as an attractive region for tourism
industries.
- Encouraging quality control, standardization and
competitiveness of the local products.
- Envisaging industrial development in Mizoram by
encouraging private entrepreneurship and confining
the role of government to that of promotional and
catalytic agent for the growth of industry, trade
& commerce in the State.
- Ensuring minimization of pollution and encouraging
eco-friendly units.
- Encouraging industry based on medicinal plants.
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