NEW DELHI: Union Home Secretary LC Goyal has approved a new 'security clearance policy' last week which aims at disposing off all security clearance matters forwarded by fellow ministries within 4-6 weeks instead of two-three months taken at present.A top MHA official said this is a "revolutionary step" to realise the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi of ensuring ease of business and ' Make in India ' by way of faster security clearance process. The main change to the system is that the Ministry will seek a self-declaration from the private players seeking security clearance that their promoters or those on board of directors are not facing any charges of serious crimes like murder, money laundering, alleged terror links, major financial frauds/scams, using fake passports or links with foreign intelligence or security agencies.All these crimes have been categorised as threat to the nation's security based in which security clearance can be denied, the official added. "Security inputs from IB, CBI, ED and other agencies will only be sought in serious crimes and not in case of minor crimes. 14-15 parameters have been set out in 8-9 sensitive areas like Telecom, ports, civil aviation, uplinking/downlinking of TV channels or FM stations and FIPB proposals," the top home ministry official said.The Home Ministry has also written to Department of Telecommunications to set up adequate testing facilities as agencies estimate that about 65% of telecom equipment installed in India is of Chinese origin. Given the dangers such as embedded malware and bugs in Chinese equipment, India will be setting up testing facilities to screen all such telecom equipment. MHA, in its policy, has also spelt out locations where foreign investment is not welcome - such as locations close to border and vital installations.The MHA has also decided to do away with the security clearance need for Multi-System Operators (MSOs) -- basically cable operators.ET has earlier reported in May that the Home Ministry had agreed to the long-standing demand of the Finance Ministry to decide on security clearances to investment proposals before the Foreign Investment Promotion Board (FIPB) within 30 days, reducing the period drastically from 90 days at present, in a fillip to ‘ ease of doing business ’ mantra of the Narendra Modi Government. The Ministry had however then not given an assurance on deciding on other security clearances within a month.