STATE
POLICIES

ANDAMAN & NICOBAR

III.JOINT VENTURE PROJECTS:

The Administration will encourage joint venture projects through Andaman and Nicobar Islands Integrated Development Corporation or other Governmental agencies on a selective basis in the following areas:-

  1. Marine Based Industries: Fish processing and other allied activities.
  2. Tourism Based Industries: Hotels, Beach Resorts, Restaurant, Water Sports and other tourism related activities like marine aquarium, dolphin aquarium, scuba diving, etc.
  3. Shipping Sector: Dry dock, slip ways, ship building/repairing and servicing.
  4. Power Generation Projects: Power generation projects including Thermal, Hydel and non-conventional sources of energy.
  5. Infrastructural Development Project: Infrastructural development projects including water desalination plant, roads and bridge building, projects for augmentation of ports, berthing
  6. Electronic Based Industry: Electronics based assembly industries including Hi-Tech Watches, Computer Hardware and other electronic items specially for export.

IV.MAJOR THRUST AREAS:

All joint venture projects covered under Chapter III, projects having NRI/Foreign Investment, EOU and industries based on Electronics, Synthetic Gems, Fish processing units, Cane, Coconut and Coir would be classified as major thrust sector and shall be eligible for special incentives/preferential treatment in terms of allotment of land and other infrastructural assistance, including differential power tariff, interest subsidy, exemption from levy of any local taxes/cess/royalty/octroi etc.

V. NEGATIVE LIST:

The unique fragile ecological system of these Islands necessitate a very cautious approach in the development of industries in these Islands. With a view to promote industries in an environmentally sustainable way, the Administration has chalked out a list of certain industries which will not be permitted to come up in the Islands (are not eligible for incentives and concessions) except those which have been included as major thrust area projects These are:-

  1. Units requiring huge quantity of water.
  2. Power intensive units (more than 100 KVA)
  3. Wood Based Industries (except rubber wood)
  4. Industries violating CRZ norms
  5. General Polluting Industries
  6. Industries requiring vast size of land area.
  7. Shell based units.