Lucknow, Mar 7 (KNN) Udyog Bandhu which assists entrepreneurs in setting up industries & enterprise in the state, will rank districts on the basis of implementation of Ease of Doing Business (EODB) reforms across the state on lines of the ‘Business Action Reform Plan’ introduced by the Centre in 2015.

Reportedly, this decision was taken at the 41st board of governors meeting of Udyog Bandhu, on Friday which was presided by Alok Tandon, infrastructure and industrial development commissioner (IIDC), and also chairman of Udyog Bandhu.

While addressing the meeting,  Alok Kumar Principal secretary, infrastructure and industrial development said, “In the first phase, the district reform action plan will be implemented in five districts where adequate manpower will be deputed for efficient implementation of the plan.”

''These districts will then be ranked according to their performance in implementation of these reforms,'' he added.

“Initially, five to six districts will be selected where investment applications are more than 5000,” said Tandon.

Navneet Sehgal, principal secretary, department of MSME, said that fr0m next year, the MSME department will make all district industry centres online. Therefore, professional support of Udyog Bandhu is needed.

At the meeting, officials informed that 90 investment projects worth Rs 38,000 crore, approved at the UP Investors Summit in 2018, had been rolled out.