LUCKNOW, April 29 -- Making land available to investors is the most primary task which the Uttar Pradesh government wants to be executed with utmost priority to ensure rollout of MoUs signed at the Global Investors' Summit here in February 2023. To fulfil this objective, chief secretary Manoj Kumar Singh on Monday stressed an investor-friendly management system that ensures readily available and well documented industrial land to investors. Singh set one-month deadline to accomplish the task. At the review meeting of Udyami Mitras at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan (IGP), the chief secretary stressed on making a land bank and identifying vacant land. He has directed all housing development authorities to collect data on industrial land under their jurisdictions. Singh has also asked all development authorities to standardise and streamline the land allotment process to ensure transparency and ease of doing business. To note, the Invest UP has also sought details of vacant and allotted plots, establishment of industries and progress of various projects across the state from various industrial authorities, including UPSIDA, NOIDA, YEIDA, UPEIDA, GIDA and SIDA. It is creating a comprehensive database of all major industrial authorities in the state comprising all relevant details, including a database of plots. With this process, the Invest UP also wants to ensure transparency in the land-allotment process. The chief secretary directed all industrial development authorities to regularly update the status of available industrial land. Singh instructed them to maintain real-time tracking of land requirement, acquisition process and development status to meet investors' demand. Government departments The chief secretary has directed government departments to identify and assess unutilised or underutilised lands in their respective departments. He also stressed on evaluating their suitability for industrial use and integrate viable parcels into the land bank for future industrial allocation. The state government has set a target to develop at least 50 acres of contiguous land through gram panchayats. The state government has also stressed on identifying rural and peri-urban regions for agro-based, MSME and light manufacturing industries. Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh industrial development minister Nand Gopal Gupta 'Nandi' on Monday took Udyami Mitras to task at the monthly review meeting after several cases of pending status of memorandums of understanding (MoUs) at the Nivesh Sarathi portal were reported. For the review meeting, 118 Udyami Mitras assembled at the Indira Gandhi Pratishthan in Gomti Nagar. CEO of Invest UP Vijay Kiran Anand and principal secretary, Industrial development department, Alok Kumar were also present. During the session, the Invest UP CEO quizzed Udyami Mitras of various districts after the current status of MoUs in their respective districts was not updated. These MoUs were signed by the state government at the Global Investors' Summit in February 2023....