Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal and Deputy Chief Minister, Mr. Dushyant Chautala were presented proposals by a number of companies to upgrade aviation infrastructure in Haryana and to set up training centres so as to generate employment opportunities in the field of aviation during business meet. The representative of the companies gave detailed information about their proposals in a meeting held with Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister at the Airport in Hisar. The Chief Minister and Deputy Chief Minister had arrived to attend a state-level programme organized on the completion of one year of the second term of the government led by Mr. Manoha Lal. Director, US-India Aviation Cooperation Program, Mr. Sandeep Bahl said that 30 major aviation companies of America are keen to set up their project in Haryana. On this, the Chief Minister referred to the discussion held about the Aviation Project during his visit to America. While assuring complete cooperation, the Chief Minister said that the project has a bright future. CMD, Havas Corporation Company, Mr. Anshul Bhadwaj said that his company aims to set up an aircraft component maintenance plant. MD, FSTC Company, Captain Dilawar Singh Basro said that he has prepared a project to provide commercial pilot training. For this, his company intends to work with the government as a private partner, he added. MD, Blue Synergy Company Ms. Neelu Khatri, said that her company aims to impart necessary training in the course required for Group C & D jobs in the field of aviation. She further added that the training will be imparted to train the youth of the state to become technicians, runway handles, training to drive on the runway, ATC staff and security etc in the field of aviation. The Company will enter into an agreement with any Government University in this regard. They will also provide certificates from internationally recognized authority to the youth pursuing training. Air Taxi Captain, Mr. Varun Sihag said that his company has three seater and 9 seater aircrafts. His company is ready to start flights from Hisar to Dehradun and Hisar to Chandigarh, During the business meet, the Chief Minister especially asked the representative of Spice Jet Company, Mr. Jitendra Pandey regarding the status of his Company’s project. Pandey said that there has been some delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the project will start soon. Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal welcomed all the companies to Haryana and assured that all possible support will be extended to the companies and urged them to set up their projects in the state. Deputy Chief Minister and Minister of Civil Aviation Miniser, Mr. Dushyant Chautala urged the representative of the companies to expand their business in the state while contributing towards the progress of the state.

The Haryana Government has ramped up its exercise for the Ease of Doing Business (EODB) rankings this year with the government departments making significant progress towards 100 percent implementation of State Business Reforms Action Plan (BRAP)-2020 by November 30, 2020 even as eight department have already achieved 100 percent compliance of reform points under BRAP. This was informed in a meeting regarding Ease of Doing Business held under the Chairmanship of Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal. It was informed that the State Business Reforms Action Plan carries 301 points out of which 209 points have so far been implemented by the concerned department whereas 70 points are under implemented. On the basis of the State Business Reforms Action plan, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, Government of India decides the EODB rankings. The Chief Minister reviewed the progress of various departments and directed them to finalize the State Business Reforms Action Plan by November 30, 2020. He directed the departments concerned to ensure proper coordination and make sure that all services are rendered online within the stipulated time. The issues pertaining to various departments which were taken up in the meeting included services related to Home department, digitization and publishing online land transaction deeds for 20years, integration of property registration with utilities like electricity and water, online single window clearance for movie shooting license, timelines notification under the Haryana Right to service Act, 2014 and registration under Shops and Establishment and/ or Trade license to be given through a single form. It was informed that the Revenue Department has initiated Project “Modern Revenue Record Room” to digitize the land record data. It was also informed that a common standardized form is being prepared by the departments of Urban Local Bodies and Labour for registration under shops and Establishment and/or Trade License. Apart from this, a central inspection system has been made functional for the labour, Haryana State Pollution Control Board (HSPCB) and Boiler so as to ensure that the selection of establishments for inspection is done using computerised risk assessment and allocation of inspectors is undertaken under Central Inspection System. It was informed that the Government of India would conduct a user feedback exercise through telephonic interview and/ or Whatsapp/SMS/Email based link in May 2021. For this, a complete database of users for the period between November1, 2020 to March 31, 2021 would be shared with the Government of India by April 30, 2021 for evaluation of the states’ effort and ranking on EoDB – Ease of Doing Business.

Haryana Directorate of MSME, in collaboration with Council of Scientific & Industrial Research – Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR – CSIO) is setting up a Centre of Excellence in the state to give impetus to development of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) through adoption of latest technology and focus on innovation in the state. Sharing more details in this regard, an official spokesperson said that a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the Directorate and CSIR – CSIO. Elaborating on it further he said that the State Government has been continuously working towards providing an enabling ecosystem for the state MSMEs to grow and thrive. With the new definition introduced as a part of Government of India’s Atmanirbhar Bharat Abhiyan, the scope of MSME has been significantly enhanced. In view of this Haryana Chief Minister, Mr. Manohar Lal took the historic decision of setting up a dedicated, MSME – focussed Directorate in the state. The Directorate of MSME shall function as the nodal agency for promotion, development and facilitation of MSMEs &traders in Haryana. The Directorate aims to proactively support, advise and facilitate MSMEs and traders on all the entrepreneurial know – how and business intelligence related gaps, address their business challenges, ensure fast – track grievance resolution and steer rationalised policy formulation. The CSIR- CSIO is a Chandigarh – based national laboratory dedicated to research, design and for development of scientific and industrial instruments, and is one of the constituent laboratories of the CSIR. The CSIO has been instrumental in technology development in the area of microelectronics, optics, applied physics, electronics, and mechanical engineering. The CSIR – CSIO is implementing various RED programmes in the area of food &agriculture, health and rehabilitation, avionics, snow and seismic monitoring in strategic sector, landslide and structure health monitoring for public safety and bio & nano sciences. Furthermore, under this MOU, the Directorate of MSME and CSIR- CSIO will come together to create a collaborative framework for assisting MSMEs in development of various agri technologies such as Advanced Agri-Instrumentation, Advanced Spraying Technologies, Smart and Autonomous Electrostatics Sprayers, etc. The Directorate and CSIR - -CSIO shall also collaborate on various related projects funded by government private or other agencies. Besides, the Directorate’s initiative to facilitate Industry-Academia linkages will help in fostering a culture of entrepreneurship, supporting Research & Development (R&D) among MSMEs and strengthen the state’s MSME landscape enabled by technology & innovation

With a vision to become a resourceful inventive startup hub Haryana Government is taking substantial steps for promoting entrepreneurship environment in the state. The Government is in the process of building a robust Startup Ecosystem for encouraging innovation and entrepreneurship in the state. The Department of Information Technology, Electronics and communication, Government (DITECH) Haryana has signed a Memorandum of Undertaking (MoU) with India Accelerator on November 26, 2020. While giving information about ongoing efforts to foster Startup ecosystem in the State, Special Secretary, DITECH, Mr. Rajnarayan Kaushik, said that the association between Startup Haryana, DITECH and Startup Ecosystem partners will help in creating and ecosystem that stimulates independent thinking and innovative ideas to help Startups in different stages of their entrepreneurial journey in addition to sharing of knowledge / information for promotion of Startlup ecosystem in Haryana. During the MoU Signing, Mr. Munish Bhatia, Partner, India Accelerator (IA) has informed that their company is the only India Accelerator to be accepted in the Global Accelerator Network and has been ranked amongst Would’s Top 100 Accelerators in 2019. The Company has expanded its presence across 3 hubs in Gurgaon itself.