Bhubaneswar, March 2: The state government has shortened the timeline for service delivery to industries.

The timeline for final project approval for a green-category industry has been limited to 15 days. The project approval for industries under all other categories has been slashed from 65 days to 30 days.

The deadline for registration of business has been brought down from the earlier 7 days to 1-3 days. Similarly, the timeline for allotment of land by the government has been reduced from 65 to 30 days and the time limit for environmental approvals from the earlier 60-120 days to 30-60 days.

The registration under various labour laws will now be done within 15 days. The deadline for electricity supply has been revised from more than 60 days to 15-30 days.

Provisions have also been made for sanction of deemed approval by the state and district nodal agencies in case of any delay in getting clearance from the departments concerned.

Chief secretary Aditya Prasad Padhi today directed all the departments concerned to ensure physical delivery of services within the specified time frame without fail, while presiding over an inter-departmental orientation programme on e-biz.

The state government has recently launched e-biz portal to provide a one-stop platform for all investment and business-related services and eliminate the need for physical interface with various offices.

At present, 14 major services, such as project evaluation, land allotment, shed allotment in industrial estate, approval of plan and issue of licence under Factories Act, Boilers Act, registration of establishments employing contract labour, registration under Shops and Establishment Act, power connection, consent to establish and operate under Water and Air Acts, have been integrated with the e-biz portal.

Industries secretary Sanjeeb Chopra created awareness among the various departments concerned about the services identified along with the timeline and the processes involved in consideration and finalisation of the applications.

Development commissioner R. Balakrishnan advised the officials to make the e-biz portal more service specific for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs).