Haryana Government has notified the  ‘Assistance for Waste Management Scheme’ for Industrial Sector under which incentives

Chandigarh October 26: Haryana Government has notified the  ‘Assistance for Waste Management Scheme’ for Industrial Sector under which incentives will be provided to the industries in the state to encourage them to carry out waste management activities including collection, transportation, treatment, and disposal of waste which is not just environmentally, socially, and financially sustainable but is also economically viable.

Giving information in this regard an official spokesperson of Industries and Commerce Department said that the Scheme shall commence with effect from January 1, 2021 and shall remain in operation for a period of 5 years. The assistance shall be admissible on the purchase of land, machinery and equipment on or after January 1, 2021 and before December 31, 2025.

He said that under Assistance for Waste Management Scheme, a financial assistance of 50 percent of project cost (land and building subject to maximum of 25 percent of Project cost) including machinery and equipment up to Rs 50 Crore will be provided to facilitate setting up of electronic waste management and e-waste recovery projects for industries operating in Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) sector.

The spokesperson said that New Ultra-Mega Projects, Mega Projects, Large Industries, Micro, Small and Medium enterprises operating in Electronics System Design and  Manufacturing (ESDM) sector anywhere in the State shall only be provided financial support by way of reimbursement of expenditure incurred.

The spokesperson said that the restrictive list of the Industries notified under HEEP-2020 shall not be applicable for this assistance. The eligible Units shall also comply with the conditions i.e. the unit shall file IEM/Udhyam Registration Certificate (URC) and Haryana Udhyam Memorandum (HUM) on the portal for the statistical purpose, at any stage. He said that the unit should have obtained NOC/CLU from Competent Authority if applicable. The unit should be in commercial production. He said that the unit should be in regular production at the time of disbursement and the subsidy shall not be released to a closed unit.

While sharing information about methodology for disbursement, he said that the disbursement of financial Assistance will be in three tranches as per following schedule: First Tranche of 25 percent of eligible assistance shall be released after taking 100 percent possession of land and applicant must have incurred expenditure of 50 percent of the eligible project cost. The applicant must submit the progress report as per Annexure V. Second tranche of 25% of eligible assistance will be disbursed after the applicant has already incurred expenditure of 75 percent of the eligible project cost. The applicant must submit the progress report as per Annexure V.

He said that the Third and Final Tranche of the assistance amounting to 50% of eligible assistance will be paid when the applicant has incurred expenditure of 100% of the eligible project cost. The applicant must submit the progress report as per Annexure V.

The spokesperson said that application on prescribed Form (Annexure-l) for the grant of assistance, along with listed documents would be submitted to the Director/ Director General, Industries & Commerce/Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, on the web portal of the department within 3 months of date of installation or from the date of notification of the scheme, whichever is later. The application would be processed and examined by the Joint Director/Deputy Director, District MSME Centre/ Industries & Commerce. He will be responsible for scrutiny and shall clearly recommend for approval/rejection of the claim after conducting inspection of the unit. The deficiencies, if any, would be communicated to the applicant in writing within a period of 7 days and the applicant would be given a time period of 10 days to rectify the deficiencies so pointed out. An enterprise shall not be required to submit any additional document other than specified under Annexure-l unless required for establishing genuineness of the claim. In case the deficiencies are not removed within the prescribed period, the claim shall be filed by the Competent Authority, under intimation to the applicant through an e-mail.

He said that the applicant shall forfeit its entitlement for the Assistance for Waste Management, if it does not submit its claim, complete in all respects within three months of installation of Equipment as certified by Regional Officer Haryana State Pollution Control Board or from the date of notification of the scheme, whichever is later.

The spokesperson said that the Director/ Director General/ Industries & Commerce, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises shall be competent authority for sanction of the subsidy.

The spokesperson said that the Administrative Secretary Industries and Commerce, Haryana shall be competent to make interpretation/clarification of provisions of this scheme.

The spokesperson said that an appeal against an order passed by the Comp:tent Authority shall lie with the Administrative Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Haryana within a period of 30 days from the date of communication of orders appealed against. The orders passed by the Administrative Secretary, Industries & Commerce, Haryana in appeal shall be final.

The spokesperson said that the Power to condone delay in submission of application and appeal. He said that the Director/ Director General, Industries & Commerce/ Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Haryana shall be competent to condone the delay up to a period of 03 months after the prescribed time limit. The Administrative Secretary, Industries and Commerce, Haryana shall be competent to condone the delay up to a period of 06 months after the prescribed time limit. Provided that the competent authority is satisfied with the reasons of late submission of the application on the basis of the substantial evidence/documents/ arguments presented by the applicant, he added.

The spokesperson said that in case, it is found at any stage that the applicant has claimed the assistance on the basis of wrong facts, the applicant shall besides refunding assistance with compound rate of interest @ 12 percent per annum and facing legal action, will be debarred from grant of any incentives/assistance from the State Government. If the applicant fails to refund the subsidy amount with interest, then the amount shall be recovered as arrear of land revenue. The applicant shall be debarred from public procurement as a result of mismatch in facts and figures, he added.

No. IPRDH/2021

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