Digital Goa, June 26 : Goa government today announced a slew of measures to grant relief to the trade, industry, economy and general public on the backdrop of Covid-19 Pandemic.
Municipal Administration and Panchayat
All the construction Licences and Permissions issued by the Panchyat / Municipal bodies which are expiring between March 1 ,2020 and June,30, 2020 are deemed to be extended upto October 31,2020 without payment of any additional fees.
Town & Country Planning
All the technical clearances and development permissions which are expiring between March 1 ,2020 and June,30, 2020 are deemed to be extended upto October 31,2020 without payment of any additional fees.
Excise
Last date for renewal of Excise Licenses has been extended from March 31,2020 to June 30,2020 without any penalty.
Industries
Annual instalment towards land lease premium for the financial year 2020-2021 payable to GIDC is deferred The same can be paid in equated manner in the next 3 years.
Factories & Boilers
To help the factories to deal with shortage of workers due to current restrictions, government has granted exemption to all the factories thereby allowing 12 hours working, initially for the period upto July 31,2020.
Self certification scheme introduced for factories and boilers. Factories shall be inspected only once in a period of 5 years (instead of annual) with prior intimation.
Validity of factory licenses extended for further one year with deferement of payment of licese fees without interest.
Govt in the process of issuing an ordinance to amend the Factories Act 1948 , wherein the existing threshold limit of number of workers for the purpose of applicability of the Factories act will be enhanced from 10 to 20 for factories with the aid of power and from 20 to 40 for factories without the aid of power. Around 160 factories likely to benefit from this.
Labour
Ordinance passed to amend contract labour(regulation and abolition) Act 1970 to relax the registration of establishment /contractors that employed 20 to 50 workmen as contract labour in the previous 12 months.
Self certification scheme for the shops and commercial establishments in the state to allow self -certification instead of inspection by labour inspectors. Under the scheme qualifying establishments will not be inspected for a period of 5 years.
Centralized inspection module introduced. Now inspections would be random based on the data to reduce the discretion. Inspectors of multiple departments would go together for inspection.
Commercial Tax
One Time Settlement Scheme covering all the taxation Acts for the assessment period up to year ending March 31, 2016 in case of undisputed assessment and for the assessment period up to year ending June 30,2017 in case of disputed assessment.
100 % of interest and /or penalty waived off in case of undisputed dues
50 % of arrears of tax, interest and /or penalty waived off in case of disputed dues.
The scheme is valid upto November 23, 2020.
Co-operatives
All loanees of credit societies are garnted 3 months moratorium on payment of EMI for the period April to June 2020
Electricity
The late payment surcharge has been waived off for electricity bills issued with due date of payment between March 24,2020 and June 30,2020 if the payment is made by July 15,2020
Moratorium on payment of fixed charges is provided to all industrial and commercial consumers for the bills raised during the period between March 24,2020 and June 30,2020 which they can avail if they so desire. These deferred charges shall be recovered in equated manner over next three bills to be raised after June 30,2020
PWD/WRD/GSIDC & Other implementing agencies
For all the ongoing works the period between March 25,2020 and June 30 ,2020 shall be treated as “Force Majeure” for purpose of reckoning the date of completion.
from Digital Goa
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