Steps taken to avoid legal hurdles

Hyderabad: The Telangana CMO will pursue the files cleared by the Chief Minister with all the departments in 15 days. Probably for the first time in the country that such an Act is being planned to check delay and graft in clearing investment proposals.

The aim behind the ordinance is that the Telangana government is planning to conduct a “Partnership Summit” by inviting industrialists from all the major countries and states in late-December or early-January and it wants to showcase that the state has the world’s best single window clearance system wherein officials will be taken to task if approvals are delayed under one pretext or the other or if they resort to any kind of corruption to grant approvals.

Mr Chandrasekhar Rao has been spending several hours every day since Saturday to draft the ordinance with officials of the Industries department. Legal department officials have also been involved in the exercise to ensure that precautions are taken to see that the ordinance does not invite legal problems for the government.

After holding meetings with officials on Saturday and Sunday, Mr Rao on Monday invited representatives of industry bodies like CII, FICCI and FAPCCI for their inputs on the ordinance. He is learnt to have told industry representatives that he had promised the world’s best single window clearance system to top industrialists like Ratan Tata, Azim Premji, Anil Ambani, Satya Nadella, G. Mallikarjuna Rao and others and their expectations should be met at any cost and asked them to give inputs on how to achieve this goal.

The industry representatives sought a week’s time to give their feedback on the ordinance to which the CM agreed. Mr Rao told them that all appropriate inputs given by them would be incorporated  in the ordinance, which is expected to be issued any time before Diwali.