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Big News: Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra offer incentives to encourage medical oxygen production; Tamil Nadu announces multiple measures to support micro, small, and medium enterprises; Punjab adds a new district; Puducherry revises electricity tariff for its consumers; and more.

Industrial Policy & Business Regulations

Maharashtra offers multiple incentives to encourage capacity addition of medical oxygen within the state. The incentives include a refund of the state’s goods and services tax, exemption of stamp duty, and a rebate on electricity tariff. Source: Times of India; In detail: Cabinet Decision (in Marathi)

Tamil Nadu offers multiple incentives to encourage capacity addition of medical oxygen within the state. Manufacturing units that start producing medical oxygen before August 15, 2021 will be eligible for a 30 percent capital subsidy over a two-year period. Source: The Hindu; In detail: Press Release (in Tamil)

Tamil Nadu announces multiple measures to support micro, small, and medium enterprises within the state. The measures include a capital subsidy, extending the validity of all statutory licenses, and extending timelines for registering the memorandum of deposit. Source: The Hindu; In detail: Press Release (in Tamil)

Land Acquisition & Labor Regulations

Nothing critical to report this week

Infrastructure & Governance

Punjab adds a new district Malerkotla. Malerkotla is the state’s 23rd district. Source: The Daily Guardian; In Detail: Press Release

Oil & Gas

Maharashtra releases its Biodiesel Policy, 2021 for manufacturing, storing, supplying, and selling biodiesel within the state. Source: Free Press Journal

Water & Sanitation

Nothing critical to report this week

Power & Renewable Energy

Puducherry revises electricity tariff for domestic, commercial, and industrial consumers. The revision includes a tariff hike of 2.25 percent and an increase in the regulatory surcharge from four percent to five percent. Source: The Hindu; In detail: Tariff Order

Health

Kerala invokes the Kerala Essential Articles Control Act, 1986 to control prices of articles required for treating Covid-19. Source: Live Law; In detail: Chief Minister’s Tweet

Business Negative Reforms

Goa decides to not change the electricity tariff for the current financial year, despite the joint electricity regulatory commission recommending a hike in tariff. Source: Economic Times; In detail: Tariff Order

Any Other

Nothing critical to report this week

Center – State relations

Union cabinet approves the production linked incentive scheme called “National Programme on Advanced Chemistry Cell Battery Storage.” The scheme will help in achieving manufacturing capacity of fifty-gigawatt hour of battery storage. Source: Orissa Dairy; In detail: Press Release

The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy announced a timeline extension in the scheduled commissioning date (SCD) of renewable energy projects. Projects with SCD on or after 1 April, 2021 will be eligible. Source: Economic Times; In detail: Notification