Haryana Enterprise Promotion Rules, 2016

• 02 Sep 2022

Why In News?

The Cabinet, which met under the chairmanship of Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar on September 1, 2022, approved the amendment to the 'Haryana Enterprise Promotion Rules, 2016'.

Key Points

• The state government has enacted the Haryana Enterprise Promotion Act, 2016 and related rules to create an ecosystem in the state that matches the ease of doing business and is also better than the best global standards for delays in doing business as well as reducing costs.
• The Haryana Enterprise Promotion Board (HEPB) has been constituted under Section 3 of the Haryana Enterprise Promotion Act, 2016 and the Empowered Executive Committee (EEC) has been constituted under Section 4 of the said Act.
• In the Empowered Executive Committee (EEC), the Principal Secretary to the Chief Minister is the Chairman of the Committee. The Administrative Secretary, Industries and Commerce Department is the member-cum-Chief Executive Officer of the committee.
• Town and Country Planning, Environment, Forests, Public Works (Buildings and Roads), Finance, Public Health Engineering, Electricity, Urban Local Bodies, Labour, Director General of HSIIDC or Administrative Secretaries of Industries and Commerce departments are the directors of the committee.
• The major role of EEC is to examine the cases of incentives/special packages under various schemes/policies of the Government and recommend the same to the Haryana Enterprise Promotion Board.
• The EEC further approves and recommends cases for special packages including reimbursement of GST. However, the Administrative Secretary of the Excise and Taxation Department is not a member of this committee. There was a need to amend Rule 4(1) of the Haryana Enterprise Promotion Rules, 2016 to include the Administrative Secretary of the Excise and Taxation Department as a member of the Empowered Executive Committee (EEC).
• Apart from this, the cabinet gave ex-post (post-facto) approval to amend the Haryana Public Service Commission (Limitation of Works) Regulations, 1973. According to this amendment, instead of Haryana Staff Selection Commission, HPSC has been made mandatory to conduct the recruitment process for various posts of Post Graduate Teacher Group-B. The recruitment process for all other Group-B posts is being conducted by HPSC.