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Cabinet amends Meghalaya State Investment Promotion and Facilitation Act, 2024 

Shillong,Jan 15: The cabinet has approved the amendment of Meghalaya State Investment Promotion and Facilitation Act, 2024  to ensure that there is no ‘derogation of the Meghalaya Land Transfer Regulation Act, 1971 while promoting investments in the state.
Speaking to reporters after the cabinet meeting on Wednesday, the chief minister said, “We are removing para 34 by adding this line that this Act shall not be in derogation of the Meghalaya Land Transfer Regulation Act, 1971.
The  goverment also renamed the Investment Meghalaya Agency (IMA) as Meghalaya Investment Promotion Authority (MIPA) through the amendment.
According to the chief minister, the decision was taken after a recent meeting held with the KHADC delegation led by its CEM Pyniaid Sing Syiem, which has raised certain concerns on the matter.
The government has decided to incorporate the suggestions given by the KHADC, which include the amendment of the Act.
“I want to clarify that a clause was very specific to the common application forms. Now in the past, the Single Window Agency  requires certain applications to be made to them in certain forms, the MUDA requires application to be made in certain forms, MTDC also requires applications to be made in certain forms and hence, to avoid the amendment of all those 6-7 Acts to incorporate the provisions of this Act, we had put this provision in this Act to override those provisions in those Acts and the basic powers of this were very specific to the common application forms and did not go beyond that. I just want to clarify that but since it has created a confusion in the district council and other members and from the public, the government has decided to repeal this article or para 34 of this Act, which is creating this confusion,” the CM said.
“We are specifically putting that clause to avoid any confusion among the public because we felt that there was a confusion on this because the district council and the CEM had mentioned this to us and hence, we are removing that para 34 and adding this line that this Act shall not be in derogation of the Meghalaya Land Transfer Regulation Act, 1971.”
On the concern regarding para 13 of this Act, Sangma said, “There is a specific paragraph that mentioned that wherever the forms and fees that have to be prescribed for clearances in any central laws, the applications shall be submitted to the central government. So in order to ensure that we take care the concerns of the KHADC and other members we are incorporating one more paragraph to this to say that provided further where any forms and fees have been prescribed for such clearances from the ADCs, the applications shall be submitted only in that very form along with the fees to be submitted.”
“The permission from the district councils have to be applied from the district councils. Since there was a confusion regarding that, we are introducing this paragraph very specifically to clarify that the applications, the permissions, all NOCs whatever required from the ADCs, will have to be taken up through the ADCs and separate forms will have to be applied to the respective ADCs, which was actually the procedures,” he said.
The chief minister said the government is also including one para in this Act, which is making it mandatory for employing local people.
“The section 2 (a) will read: “subject to the overall control and superintendents of the government, the governing council shall provide overall policy guidances and directions under this Act” then we added” that the incentives under the policies will be provided to industries, who are creating employment for local people individuals, who are domiciles of Meghalaya.
We are adding this to ensure that employment is given to the local people,” he said.

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