08-09-08-21 Daily-Haryana-HPSC Current Affairs

The policy, which is likely to be released soon, aims to give a boost to the data centre in big cities like cyber city-Gurugram and Faridabad and also, attract big investments in cities like Panipat, Hisar, Yamunanagar among others.

The State Government has planned to give Infrastructure status to the data centre sector to enable the industry to avail long-term credit from lenders at easier terms and, in turn, boost Investment in this space. Apart from this, the Data Centre Parks (DCPs) and Data Centre Units (DCUs) will be declared as an energy intensive industry and considered essential service under Haryana Essential Services Maintenance Act, which means that the services will be available during calamities or crises as well.

Data Centre Units, covered under the policy, will be declared as a separate infrastructure industry. The Data Centre infrastructure will be a separate entity under the Haryana Building Code providing relaxed FAR and Building Design Requirement Norms, stated the policy.

Under the policy, the government has proposed that all approvals related to construction of DCP/DCU like building plan approval, temporary power connection, fire fighting scheme and Consent to establish amongst others shall be given in ten working days of acceptance of application.

The approvals for provisions like permanent power connection, occupation certificate and consent to operate among others are proposed to be given to the data centre operational in data centre parks within 15 working days of acceptance of application.