Incentives for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs

GOVERNMENT OF TELANGANA
Industries & Commerce Department – Incentives for setting up of New Industrial Enterprises in Telangana State – Telangana State Programme for Rapid Incubation of Dalit Entrepreneurs (T-PRIDE) – Creating a Cadre of Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe Contractors for Executing Government Works by way of Affirmative Action –Incentives for Scheduled Caste/Scheduled Tribe entrepreneurs - Orders – Issued

INDUSTRIES AND COMMERCE (IP&INF) DEPARTMENT
G.O.MS.No. 31 Dated:29.11.2014
O R D E R:
In a memorandum submitted by Babasaheb Ambedkar to the Governor General on 29 th October 1942, among other things, Ambedkar wrote that out of total of 1171 approved contractors of the CPWD only one belonged to the ‘depressed classes’. Babasaheb Ambedkar stated quite correctly that though a large number of workers and employees of the CPWD contractors were persons belonging to the depressed cases, there was no opportunity for them to become contractors themselves. Post-independence, the number of SC/ST contractors approved and doing work for Central
and State Governments would not be significant.

2.  Telangana State Government as part of the SC/ST entrepreneur development effort, propose to create a process for developing a number of SC/ST contractors for executing Government works at various levels by way of affirmative action.

3.  The goal of this policy is to create at least 200 SC/ST contractors in Telangana State over a 5 years period. This will create a contractor pool adequate to execute Class V works for the PWD, I&CAD, RWS, PH and Panchayati Raj Department works.

4.  Interested and eligible civil engineers belonging to SC/ST communities with at least a second class aggregate in their engineering degree or diploma will be selected. The selected candidates will be trained in the National Academy for Construction in Hyderabad for an appropriate period. The curriculum and practical training for the training module will be developed by the NAC in consultation with the PWD,
I &CAD and PR & RD Departments. The certificate issued by the NAC should be treated by the various Government works departments as fulfilling the education and experience qualification requirement for at least Class V contractors.

5.  Government will arrange for the financial support required for equipment and working capital that will enable the new contractors to take up construction work.

6. Rules will be framed separately in consultation with the Social Welfare, Tribal Welfare and Government works departments and implementing agencies.

6. Government may review and modify these incentives from time to time.

7.  This order is issued with the concurrence of Finance Department, vide their No.454/PFS/14, dated.25.11.2014.

8. Copy of this order is available on Internet and can be accessed at address http://goir.telangana.gov.in.

(BY ORDER AND IN THE NAME OF THE GOVERNOR OF TELANGANA) K. PRADEEP CHANDRA
SPECIAL CHIEF SECRETARY TO GOVERNMENT AND
COMMISSIONER FOR INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION