• Aims to achieve sustainable industrial development

• Makes the State more attractive to accelerate further the flow of investment in the Industrial sector

• Proposes to promote IT and knowledge based industries

• Enhanced exports from industrial units targeted

• Encourages the development of small scale industries and service sector industries

• Promotes industries in backward areas

• Provides for assistance for Technology Upgradation Programme in specitifc industrial clusters

• Assistance for activities like market development and promotion

• Upgradation of entrepreneurial skill of first generation entrepreneurs to equip them to face challenges of new developments

• Asset management fund introduced to cover debt and equity fund for financial assistance to infrastructure projects

• Encourages setting up of private sector industrial parks such as employment intensive parks, bio-tech parks, IT parks, investment oriented parks and trade centers

• Provides to promote training institutions by large houses for IT, bio-technology, marine engineering, etc.

• Supports Environmental Protection measures

• For effective impelementation, a Review Committee under the chairmanship of Hon ble Minister for Industries and an Empowered Committee under the chairmanship of Hon ble Chief Minister being set up

  Complete text of the Industrial policy is available in easy print format.

An effort is made above to highlight Salient Features of the sectoral policies announced by the Government of Gujarat:

Schemes under Gujarat Industrial Policy - 2000

• Scheme of Interest Subsidy or State cash subsidy to Small Scale Industries

• Scheme of Interest Subsidy to Service Sector Industries

• Industrial Park Scheme - 2000

• Incentive Scheme for Export Oriented Park and Export Oriented Units-2000

• Insertion of additional items of production in the Sale Tax Eligibility Certificate

• Medium and Large Industries - Subsidy Scheme 2000

• Assistance for Research & Development and Patent Registration

• Amendment in Financial Assistance for upgradation of quality in SSI/ Medium & Large Scale Sector

• Declaration of Backward Talukas eligible for benefits
  

Gujarat Earthquake

On 26th January 2001, an earthquake struck most parts of Gujarat causing devastation of life and properties including that of industrial units.

In order to provide relief to such affected industrial units, Government of Gujarat has announced following schemes:

• Assistance to industrial units affected by earthquake in Gujarat


• Rehabilitation scheme for the Cottage, Village Industries and self-employed artisans in the earthquake-hit areas
  
  

• Central Government notification granting EXCISE EXEMPTION to new units setup in the district of Kutch for FIVE years

• Trade notice #2/2001 issued by office of the Chief Commissioner of Central Excise Vadodara

• Incentive Scheme 2001 for Economic Development of Kutch District