The Department of Trade, Commerce and Industry of Manipur (“Department”) has introduced the Manipur Bureau of Investment Promotion Bill, 2019 (“Bill”) to provide for speedy processing of applications and expeditious clearance of investment proposals (both regulatory and fiscal) in the State of Manipur and to implement investment promotion policies that may be announced by the State Government from time to time and for the matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
Applicability:
This Bill will apply to various clearances required under State enactments as well as clearances delegated to competent State Authorities under any central enactment for setting up of Service Sector or Industrial undertakings including infrastructure projects in the State of Manipur.
Key Highlights:
- State that Single Window Agency and Executive Committee will be constituted and its functions in short
- Procedure for online application for obtaining clearance-
- The applicant seeking any clearance must register through the Single Window portal created by the Single Window Agency for the purpose and on registration, applicant will be given a unique ID and password for future reference.
- The application form along with prescribed attachment must be submitted/uploaded online, wherever feasible. Other attachments, wherever necessary, are required to be sent to the concerned competent authority through courier and can be tracked online through a built-in system as per guidance available in the Single Window Portal.
- All competent authorities will be provided online access to the Single Window Portal through a secured user ID and password, to process the applications forwarded to them.
- For additional attachments dispatched by courier to respective competent authority, the concerned competent authority will enter the date specific to clearance in their record.
- In case the competent authority does not acknowledge the receipt of attachment within 3 working days of dispatch, as noted initially in the system, the fourth working day from dispatch will be construed as reference date specific to clearance.
- The competent authority may ask for additional information from the applicant within first 3 days of receipt of complete application which may be extended up to a maximum of 7 days.
- Approval or rejection letter will bear the digital signature of the competent authority. A hard copy of the approval will be forwarded to the applicant as well as to the Chief Executive Officer.
- Once the request is approved by the concerned competent authority, the applicant can take a print out of the approval. The applicant/s may file online for Multiple clearances. Applicant/s will be given an option to file for all clearances at one time or multiple time.
- At each stage of the application, an e-mail and SMS alerts will be sent to the applicant.
- The application will be submitted with the prescribed fee in the prescribed manner to the Single Window Agency.
- The Single Window Agency will keep all records of clearances, etc. for future record.
- The Single Window Agency will submit a report to the Bureau about the status of application received, disposal, pending and reasons for pending on monthly basis.
- There will be a dedicated helpline number to provide helps to the investors while filing application form online.
- These web portals will be hyperlinked with the portal created under the Single Window Agency. However competent authority will take initiative to interlink with the web portal created by the Single Window Agency.
- Self-Certification– Every applicant will furnish a “Self-Certificate” at the time of submitting Online application to the Single Window Agency in the format attached with the application form. The Self Certificate furnished by the applicant will be taken into consideration and accepted by the competent authority as a reliable document to which the applicant will be fully responsible.
Source: Department of Trade, Commerce and Industry of Manipur
