A Critical Study on The New Industrial Policy of India 1991
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The New Industrial Policy of 1991 comes at the center of economic reforms that launched during the early 1990s. All the later reform measures were derived out of the new industrial policy. The Policy has brought comprehensive changes in economic regulation in the country. As the name suggests, these reform measures were made in different areas related to the industrial sector.
As part of the policy, the role of public sector has been redefined. A dedicated reform policy for the public sector including the disinvestment programme were launched under the NIP 1991. Private sector has given welcome in major industries that were previously reserved for the public sector.
Similarly, foreign investment has given welcome under the policy. But the most important reform measure of the new industrial policy was that it e nded the practice of industrial licensing in India. Industrial licensing represented red tapism.
Because of the large scale changes, the Industrial Policy of 1991 or the new industrial policy represents a major change from the early policy of 1956.
The new policy contained policy directions for reforms and thus for LPG (Liberalisation, Privatisation and Globalisation). It enlarged the scope of private sector participation to almost all industrial sectors except three (modified). Simultaneously, the policy has given welcome to foreign investment and foreign technology. Since 1991, the country’s policy on foreign investment is gradually evolving through the introduction of liberalization measures in a phase wise manner.
The policy has brought changes in the following aspects of industrial regulation:
- Industrial delicensing
- Deregulation of the industrial sector
- Public sector policy (dereservation and reform of PSEs)
- Abolition of MRTP Act
- Foreign investment policy and foreign technology policy.
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