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ADMINISTRATION OF INCENTIVES: 9.1. Procedure for applying for incentives: Department of Tourism, Government of Odisha shall be the Implementing Agency for administration of incentives under this Tourism Policy. Detailed operational guidelines shall be issued by the Tourism Department. All Tourism Units undertakings desirous of availing any incentive under this policy must be registered with the Department of Tourism. The projects will be scrutinized by Tourism Department and after scrutiny; provisional registration shall be issued adopting the following procedure: • Tourism Department shall give Provisional Registration Certificate in the first instance up to 3 years to the Eligible Units. 28 • If such a unit is not in a position to complete the project and start commercial operations during the initial validity period, it may apply for time extension along with its progress report. The administrative department may, after examining the difficulties experienced by the individual unit in implementing the project and also recording the reasons, grant extension for a period up to 2 years. • The units which are unable to go operational after the time extension will have to explain to the Government the reasons for the delay. This explanation will have to be forwarded by the District Tourist Officer to the Commissioner / Director of Tourism, who will carry out physical inspection of the projects and report to the tourism advisory committee. The committee will then take a decision on further time extension based on this report and recommend its views to the Government for taking necessary steps. 9.2. Illustrative procedure for claiming incentives: The Eligible units along with the provisional Certificate shall apply to DoT, within 180 days after the commencement of commercial operation of the project, for permissible benefits along with necessary documents. Department of Tourism on receiving the information and documents will scrutinize it and issue Eligibility Certificate and the Certificate of Entitlement and put proper date of effect so as to enable the unit to avail the incentives. Step-I Eligible Units will apply for the incentive to Department of Tourism Step-IV If a unit is not in a position to complete the project during 3 years, it may apply for extension. Step-VII Tourism Department shall scrutinize the documents and after field visit issue Eligibility Certificate, if eligible. Step-II DoT will scrutinize the applications and issue a Provisional Registration Certificate (PRC) Step-V If agreed, Tourism department may grant an extension, (maximum upto 2 years). Further time extension by Tourism Advisory Committee. Step-VIII Based on the Eligibility Certificate, the Department of Tourism shall in turn issue Certificate of Entitlement and put proper date of effect for availing benefits. Step-III PRC shall be valid for up to 3 years in the first instance Step-VI The Eligible Units shall inform Tourism Department within 180 days of the commencement of commercial operation of the project 29 The unit shall remain in commercial operation continuously for a minimum of 5 years from the date on which benefits have been availed. In cases, where the operation has been discontinued due to any reason within the period of 5 years mentioned above, the unit shall be required to refund the incentives along with interest @ of 2% per month or any other penal interest prescribed by the DoT. The unit, after getting the eligibility Certificate, must submit quarterly progress details to the DoT of the incentives availed during the eligibility period. Any excess claim of incentives will be recovered with interest of 2% per month or any other penal interest prescribed by the DoT.