In yet another attempt to bring in transparency and provide online Services to entrepreneurs and industrial units, Goa Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) has decided to create a digital land bank of all industrial estates by October.
The GIDC board and gave its approval for an aerial survey of all industrial estates, which will help monitor encroachments and allow entrepreneurs to identify vacant plots.
GIDC chairman Alexio ReginaldoLourencoalso announced that the board has accepted the need for a one-time settlement scheme for defaulting industries which have not paid lease rent and other charges for several years.
In 2020, the Centres Department for Promotion of and Internal Trade launched the countrys first digital industrial land bank and Goa was among the first seven states to map industrial land as part of the national GIS-enabled land bank system.