THE MINISTER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY(SHRI KAMAL NATH)
(a) & (b): Consideration of environmental aspects is a part and parcel of
an industrial project. Zoning and land use regulations as well as
environmental legislations (except non-polluting industries) regulate
industrial locations.
(c) to (g): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.
STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO parts (c) to (g) OF LOK SABHA STARRED
QUESTION NO.316 FOR 16.08.2005 REGARDING INDUSTRIALLY
BACKWARD STATES.
(a) & (b): Consideration of environmental aspects is a part and parcel of
an industrial project. Zoning and land use regulations as well as
environmental legislations (except non-polluting industries) regulate
industrial locations.
(c) to (e): The level of disparity/gap, year-wise industrial growth and
the names of the States are given in the statement at Annexure. Major
reasons for lagging in industrial growth are infrastructure constraints,
size of market, credit facility, entrepreneurial availability etc.
(f) & (g) To give a boost to industrial growth of the backward States,
Government of India has initiated a number of policies/ schemes which,
inter alia, include
(i) Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme
(IIUS),
(ii) Growth Centre Scheme,
(iii) Transport Subsidy Scheme,
(iv)
North East Industrial Policy (NEIP),
(v) Sikkim Industrial Policy,
(vi)
Special Package Scheme for Jammu & Kashmir, Uttaranchal and Himachal
Pradesh. Government has also launched Accelerated Power Development &
Reforms Programme through which funds are released to State Electricity
Boards/public utilities for upgrading and strengthening transmission &
distribution systems.
The Central assistance released are as under:
Name of the scheme Period Total Amount released(Rs. Crore)
North-East Industrial Policy Till March 2005 313.23
Sikkim’s New Industrial policy Till March 2005 2.40
Growth Centre Scheme Till March 2005 522.56
Industrial Infrastructure Upgradation Scheme (IIUS) Till July 2005 286.71
Package scheme for Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and Uttranchal Till
March 2005 103.00
Transport Subsidy Scheme (reimbursement) Till 2004-05 907.59
ANNEXURE
GROWTH RATE (%) OF GROSS STATE DOMESTIC PRODUCT FROM MANUFACTURING SECTOR
AT CONSTANT PRICES (1993-94 prices) DURING THE NINTH FIVE YEAR PLAN
Sl. State\UT 1997-98 1998-99 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002
No.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
1. Andhra Pradesh 5.2 6.0 -0.5 -0.3 8.4
2. Arunachal Pradesh -15.2 5.4 -4.5 0.0 7.4
3. Assam 8.6 -8.7 6.7 -1.1 15.6
4. Bihar 78.2 -38.3 34.0 -6.1 -15.2
5. Jharkhand 88.1 5.5 -6.5 -28.9 -14.8
6. Goa 1.6 51.4 14.0 5.0 10.1
7 Gujarat -3.2 8.2 7.2 -1.1 3.2
8. Haryana 6.5 6.2 6.0 5.6 4.9
9. Himachal Pradesh 5.0 2.2 13.2 16.1 6.8
10.J & K 0.3 6.9 9.8 -15.2 23.0
11.Karnataka 12.8 18.0 -10.2 2.9 11.9
12.Kerala -2.1 7.9 7.5 -5.9 -7.6
13.Madhya Pr. 12.1 4.1 7.5 6.9 -1.9
14.Chattisgarh 41.0 0.0 -25.6 -7.2 4.4
15.Maharashtra 12.8 -7.4 10.0 -14.9 0.1
16.Manipur 2.7 11.7 17.8 -9.1 17.2
17.Meghalaya -12.3 -6.7 14.2 10.1 4.3
18.Mizoram - - - - -
19.Nagaland 2.4 -59.2 -51.7 12.2 18.3
20.Orissa 2.6 18.7 14.6 -11.3 -10.9
21.Punjab 4.6 6.5 5.9 4.8 -2.9
22.Rajasthan 24.3 -4.5 27.5 -10.4 3.3
23.Sikkim 0.4 1.1 2.3 1.3 1.3
24.Tamil Nadu -1.4 -3.2 9.9 8.7 -8.4
25.Tripura 2.6 -21.1 22.1 96.6 -23.9
26.Uttar Pradesh -4.2 -2.5 0.6 -2.3 1.5
27.Uttaranchal -16.2 -26.0 -2.2 47.7 -9.1
28.West Bengal 8.2 5.5 7.3 -0.1 3.4
29.A & N islands 3.4 -37.9 1.0 -50.9 5.8
30.Chandigarh 10.0 3.1 3.8 -1.1 1.5
31.Delhi 12.7 6.3 4.4 9.1 7.2
32.Pondicherry 59.8 5.5 -4.2 26.4 8.1
Source: CSO
