Section 19 in Incentives to Industries in Bihar, 1986
19. Special facilities for Electronics Industry.
(1)Raw materials used for the manufacture of Electronic goods and the electronics goods manufactured in the State will be exempted from Sales Tax for a period of five years (effective from 1st September, 1986). Only such raw materials and such electronic products will get this concession as are approved and notified as electronics raw materials and electronics products by the Department of Electronics, Government of India.(2)Market Assistance to Electronics Industries.-Since this sector is still to develop in the State, there is an obvious handicap of market goodwill. It is, therefore, necessary to have a central agency for marketing the goods manufactured by the Small and Medium units which should also anticipate the future trends and undertake the necessary market research. It has, therefore been decided to consider setting up a marketing division with the State Electronics Development Corporation which will act as marketing agency for these units and provide professional marketing intelligence and expertise.(3)Technical Support Services.-Another strategy to achieve overall development of electronics in the State would be to provide technical support services to small and medium scale units through the Electronics Test and Development Centre, Patna. The testing facilities for standardisation and quality control at EITDC, Patna will be strengthened. It is also decided to consider setting up a new EITDC centre at Ranchi with assistance of Electronics Commission, Government of India to meet the growing needs of Small/Medium Electronics Units and to help them in upgrading their product quality.(4)Raw material depot.-The Government is aware of the difficulties faced by the small entrepreneurs in respect of raw materials. Hardly an electronics hardware is manufactured in Bihar and the entrepreneurs have to depend on markets mostly in Bombay and Delhi. Therefore, it has been decided to consider opening a raw material depot particularly, for critical materials, with a suitable mechanism which would be accessible to all entrepreneurs.(5)Man power development centre.-The Government has also decided to consider setting up a man power development centre for electronics at Patna to meet the increasing demand for qualified electronics technicians in collaboration with Tele-Communication India Ltd., a Government of India undertaking. More such centres would be set up in coming years in different parts of the State.(6)Computer services.-Under the NIC's plan for data processing, Patna may be considered for being equipped with a medium capacity computer system hooked on to the NIC's Computer Network.
