131. Maximise private investment in infrastructure development


Eliminate all restrictive labour practices, ensuring cordial industrial relations and establishment of a new work culture, with productivity orientation and productivity-linked wages. Enable a more liberalized environment within notified industrial zones, parks and estates through special legal dispensation.


Nurture the scarce entrepreneurial talent for the sustainable creation of industrial wealth with special emphasis on technically qualified persons, those from the business community, women and disadvantaged sections.


Coordinate industry with the educational system in order to produce and update the particular knowledge and skills required by industry form time to time. Re-engineer the Government’s delivery mechanism (departments and agencies as well as systems and procedures) to make them responsive, result-oriented and transparent.


Promote special development of sunrise sectors including information technology, biotechnology, food and agro processing, infrastructure and service with high growth potential. Maximise value addition within the State for indigenous produce and minerals as well as intensive growth (particularly export-oriented) of Kerala’s products and services.