Constitution, functions and powers of High Powered Clearance Committee

(1) The State Government may, by notification, constitute a single point clearance committee called “High Powered Clearance Committee” consisting of such members as may be prescribed. (2) The Committee shall perform the following functions, namely: - (i) to meet at such times and at such places and adopt such procedure to transact its business as may be prescribed; (ii) to receive Composite Application Forms for grant of clearance for setting up industrial units with proposed investment of Rs. 30.00 crores and above; (iii) to review and monitor the processing of application by the authority and forward the orders of the authority to the applicant; (iv) to inform the entrepreneur the date on which his application may be deemed to have been approved in the case of deemed approval; (v) the member of the Committee shall personally attend the meeting and in case he is unable to attend the meeting, he may depute a senior level officer to attend the meeting with a written authorization decision in the meeting. (3) The Committee shall be the final authority in granting clearances. The clearances given by the Committee shall be binding on all concerned authorities and such authorities shall issue the required clearances to the entrepreneur within stipulated time.