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“The Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) is focussing connected moving towards 'automation' successful processes progressive successful manufacturing explosives to marque operations safer,” a elder authorities authoritative has said.
“The department, which functions nether the Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has undertaken large regulatory reforms to fortify information and easiness of doing business,” DPIIT Joint Secretary Dr. Kajal said connected Thursday (June 11, 2026).
Talking to PTI successful Nagpur connected the sidelines of 'Awareness store connected reforms undertaken by the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation (PESO)', she asserted DPIIT is making concerted efforts to forestall accidental blasts astatine explosives manufacturing factories. Asked what information precautions DPIIT and PESO, which comes nether the department, are taking to forestall blasts astatine explosives manufacturing units, the authoritative said some agencies are making their champion efforts to forestall specified tragedies successful the future.
She was asked specifically successful the discourse of caller blasts astatine explosives units successful Nagpur. At slightest 19 workers died and 23 were injured successful a blast astatine the detonator assembly portion of Special Blasts Limited (SBL) Energy, a mining and concern explosives manufacturer, successful Katol tehsil of the territory successful March.
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"We are trying to guarantee that some sides marque a combined effort, those who clasp explosives licenses arsenic well. The archetypal licence is issued aft looking astatine information standards, the building, and everything. Now, coming to Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), some sides indispensable travel a communal SOP. An explosive mill has its ain rules and SOPs that spell retired however they should run and negociate day-to-day activities. On our side, we indispensable determine however galore inspections to transportation out, however to enforce rules, and guarantee compliance. So this is simply a combined effort from some sides," she insisted.
“DPIIT is trying to summation officers' spot successful PESO and the section precocious sanctioned further posts for which recruitment is nether way,” the authoritative said. "We volition proceed to summation spot and physique capableness truthful radical recognize however to instrumentality SOPs, including PESO-related aspects. We volition guarantee these SOPs are decently followed. We volition clasp workshops with them (explosive units), truthful they stay alert of and adhere to rules and SOPs," she stated.
“DPIIT and PESO are focussing connected moving towards 'automation' successful processes successful explosives manufacturing,” she said. "For example, physics detonators person been introduced and aged electrical ones person been phased retired and dismantled. With physics detonators, you tin cognize astatine which determination and astatine what clip a detonation occurred and why," she maintained.
In 2025, information standards were made much stringent to forestall accidents and continuous efforts are being undertaken to avert incidents, she informed. "The authorities is making each effort to 'automate' captious processes and marque rules much stringent. We bash not privation to hamper anyone's business, but rules indispensable beryllium followed," the bureaucrat emphasised.
"In captious areas, we volition research automation and trial which steps tin beryllium automated to marque operations safer. Explosives are inherently risky, truthful we are trying to fig retired however overmuch tin beryllium automated and astatine which points. We volition spot successful clip whether we are capable to instrumentality these reforms," she said.
To a query connected however DPIIT is looking astatine attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI), she said India recorded an all-time precocious gross FDI inflow of astir $95 cardinal successful FY26. "I deliberation this twelvemonth India has recorded implicit $94 cardinal (in FDI inflow). We person created a record, which is simply a precise bully thing, which shows investors person a precise affirmative outlook for our country. DPIIT's mandate is besides to bring concern and the section is making each imaginable efforts truthful that our country, compared with different competing countries, proves to beryllium a amended location," she stated. "This reflects the assurance of overseas investors who are coming and investing successful India, and we anticipation that adjacent twelvemonth we volition transverse the $100 billion-mark," Dr. Kajal said.
Earlier, astatine a property conference, she said nether the Startup India project, much than 2.23 lakh startups crossed 56 industries person been recognised with much than 51% originating from Tier-II and Tier-III cities. “The inaugural has supported instauration of much than 23.36 lakh jobs and strengthened India's innovation ecosystem,” she said.
To accelerate concern infrastructure development, DPIIT has projected the improvement of 100 investment-ready concern parks nether the Bharat Audyogik Vikas Yojna inaugural with ₹33,660 crore outlay,” she said. “The programme aligns with PM GatiShakti principles and focusses connected multimodal connectivity and plug-and-play infrastructure,” the authoritative said.
She stated that India Industrial Land Bank has been expanded into a broad GIS-enabled level providing plot-level accusation connected 2,541 concern parks crossed each States and Union Territories, enabling investors to entree concern onshore and infrastructure accusation done a azygous integer interface.
As portion of the government's committedness to improving easiness of doing concern and promoting trust-based governance, DPIIT has precocious the Jan Vishwas betterment docket done measures aimed astatine decriminalising insignificant procedural violations and promoting a proportionate, compliance-oriented regulatory framework, the authoritative maintained.
