Uttar Pradesh

General Information

Infrastructure

Industrial Policy

The new Industrial Policy is dynamic in nature. It provides a package of facilities and incentives to entrepreneurs and industrial units. The prime object of this policy is to ensure creation of maximum employment opportunities and eradication of poverty. Top priority has been accorded to infrastructural facilities.

The districts of the State have been classified into four categories.

Category - A :Banda, Hamirpur, Jalaun, Fatehpur, Jaunpur, Sultanpur, Kanpur,Almora, Chamoli, Pauri, Garhwal, Tehri Garhwal, Uttarkashi,Pitthoragarh, Dehradun and Nainital.
Category - B:The trans-yamuna area of Allahabad (except Naini), Basti,Siddharthnagar, Faizabad, Jhansi, Lalitpur, Raebareli, Ballia,and Taj Trapezum area.
Category - C: Azamgarh, Mau, Behraich, Deoria, Barabanki, Etah (remaining area)Etawa, Farrukhabad, Ghazipur, Gonda, Hardoi, Mainpuri(remaining area), Mathura (remaining area), Moradabad, Piliphit,Pratapgarh, Rampur, Shahjahanpur, Badaun, Sitapur, Unnao and Bulandshahar.
Category - D:Kanpur city, Agra (remaining area), Ferozabad (remaining area),Allahabad (remaining area), Lucknow, Bareilly, Meerut, Ghaziabad,Muzaffarnagar, Saharanpur, Hardwar, Bijnor, Lakhimpur, Kheri,Aligarh (remaining area), Varanasi, Mirzapur, Sonbhadra,Gorakhpur and Maharajaganj.

Incentives

Land is available at subsidized rates in notified industrial Areas/estates in industrially backward districts.

All new units would be exempted from minimum demand charge for 5 years from the date of commencement of their production.

For rehabilitation of sick units, minimum demand charges for the period of their closure will not be charged provided this is part of the approved package.

Exemption/deferment linked to fixed capital investment. Facility available up to 150% of fixed capital investment or 8 years in category 'C', 200% or 10 years in category 'B' and 250% or 12 years in category 'A', whichever is earlier.

Deferment of luxury tax in thrust areas for 5 years

Octroi rebate on plant and machinery and building material for new units for 5 years

Exemption from minimum power demand charges for new units for 5 years

Exemption from power demand charges for sick units during the closure period

Special incentives, including electricity, equity participation, and other assistance, for NRI entrepreneurs

Subsidy of 75%, up to Rs. 0.2 million, of costs of feasibility report

State identified priority sectors

Agro-Based Industries, Animal Husbandry, Engineering, Food Processing, Horticulture, Petrochemicals, Silk, Sugar

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