CHANDIGARH: Haryana government gives reprieve to special economic zones (SEZs) that have been denotified and are in the process of being denotified by allowing them to be developed as industrial logistic hubs. This was part of the amendment brought in the Industrial Licensing Policy, 2015, approved in the Haryana cabinet on Friday morning.Besides giving last opportunity to companies who had surrendered the SEZs or intend to surrender it, the amendment will also allow warehousing as the part of industry. The companies willing to take licenses for 'logistic hub' will be able to carve our institutional, residential and commercial zones. At present, warehousing is not inherent in the definition of industries and is thus restricted to 10% in an industrial township."But after the amendment in the policy, such warehousing units may be considered as part of industry for the purpose of setting up of colony. In any industrial colony or part of colony, if there is enough demand then the entire area be developed in the form of plots for warehousing," said minister K K Bedi. Licence fee will continue to remain the same. However, the conversion charges as applicable for warehouse, other than agriculture produce, will be levied.The colonizer at the time of submission of application for grant of licence will be required to submit a proposal with regard to provision of plots for warehouse along with its justification, he added.In what is being seen as a political decision timed to lok sabha elections, the BJP government has offer the violators of building bylaws a chance to avoid legal action by paying the regularization fee. The decision will provide relief to those who are using residential units in the areas developed by the Haryana housing board for commercial purpose, the state cabinet on Friday approved a proposal for regularization of such properties. Once enforced, the decision will largely benefits hundreds of units in Faridabad , Gurgaon, Panchkula , Karnal, Panipat and Sonipat. All such properties will now stand transferred to the municipal jurisdiction and area would be designated as commercial zone in the published 'final development plan'.While putting a rider on the decision, the cabinet said that the approach of such properties should be in accordance with the layout plan of the scheme. The property proposed to be regularized should not have been sub-divided from its original size as per the approved layout plan of the scheme. No further sub-division of the property will be allowed. The ground coverage, floor area ratio (FAR) deciding the height of the building and parking will be allowed in accordance with the Haryana Building Code. In addition, the building will be regularized in accordance with permission/compoundable limits as prescribed in the composition policy and the non-compoundable construction will be demolished prior to grant of permission under this policy. This will sort out the long pending litigation, giving relief to the public, the state government has said. Apart from this, the municipalities will also earn revenue by regularising these illegal buildings, said urban local bodies minister Kavita Jain.

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