President FCIK Shahid Kamli put forth various demands, which includes the new Industrial Policy shall be made favourable to unitholders, informed the Advisor that the existing Industrial Policy and related orders shall be kept in force not in abeyance, particularly related to Marketing issue as the finance department had issued the order.

 Kamli along with his team apprised the Advisor regarding the critical issues currently faced by industries in Kashmir, which includes the industrial policy framing where the stakeholders are not being kept on board, the marketing issues where different departments especially PDD (KPDCL) and Rural development departments are not honoring the present industrial policy in vogue, with the result the present units are rendered jobless.

 

Kamli informed that the pollution Control Board is not issuing the NOC on time and PCB is not bind by the timeline to issue the NOC’s. Further, he added the boiling problems faced by stone crushing units in the valley and the menace of illegal mining.

 

Secretary-General Ovees Qadir Jamie highlighted that the Local Industry shall be given the price preference by the government and government should purchase from local Industry rather than GeM portal orders.

 

"As recently there have been orders worth crores which have been taken over by outsiders," Jamie said.

Advisor Khan heard all the suggestion and demands of FCIK and promised to redressal of the issues with related departments.

 

The meeting was also attended by Syed Sajad Qadri OSD to Advisor , Nayeem Khan President Electrical Association.