INDIAN STATE : MEGHALAYA

Indutrial Estates and Areas

To obviate the problems of prospective entrepreneurs in acquiring and developing sites for industrial purposes, some industrial Estates and Areas have been created and more are likely to come up in the near future.

Existing industrial estates and areas:

Source: Meghalaya Industrial Dev. Corp. (MIDC)

These estates and areas provide well laid out land plots of different sizes with basic infrastructure like factory sheds, all season roads, sewerage and drainage, electricity, water, telecommunication, weigh bridge etc. Additionally, the Industrial areas provide residential buildings on lease/ rent for employees of interested industrial units.

Export Promotion Industrial Park

An EPIP is being set up at Byrnihat over an area of 259 acres. This scheme, under the Government of India, is aimed at encouraging export efforts by

• Building up of infrastructure facilities of high standards to be used by Export Oriented Units (EOUs)
• Sustaining the interest of the State Government and local population in building and maintaining such facilities.

The following vital facilities will be made available at the proposed EPIP:

• RCC Buildings and Factory Sheds
  
• All Weather Roads
  
• Power Supply
  
• Water Supply
  
• Common facilities such as, administrative offices, utility stores, parking facilities, canteen, health centre, post office, banks, training centres, conference rooms etc.

Policy framework

Industrial Policy 1997

Full text of the policy

IT policy 2004

Full text of the Policy

The Meghalaya State Tourism Policy, 2007 (Draft)

Full text of the Policy

State Sports policy of Meghalaya (Draft)

Full text of the Policy

State Education policy of Meghalaya (Draft)

Full text of the Policy

Mining Policy 2009 (Draft)

Full text of the Policy

Useful web links

• Government of Meghalaya
• Official Website of Industries Department