States must follow good practices made available by DIPP to improve ease of doing biz: Kant
Updated: Oct 10, 2014 02:18:04pm
New Delhi, Oct 10 (KNN) In order to improve India’s ranking from 126 to 50 in terms of ease of going business, the states must resolve the difficulties in the way of doing business and follow the good practices made available to them by DIPP in according project clearances, Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP) said today.
DIPP has cautioned the states that unless they resolve the difficulties in the way of doing business through business process engineering and online project clearances, India’s quest for achieving a growth rate of 7.5 per cent over a 30 year period will remain a pipedream.
Addressing a workshop on ‘Digitization of Clearances for Setting-up Projects’ organized by FICCI in association with Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Amitabh Kant, Secretary, DIPP, said India’s ranking in the Work Bank’s ease of doing business index could rise from 126 to 50, if the states adopt a new mindset and muster the administrative will to follow the good practices made available to them by DIPP in according project clearances.
“If the states grow, India grows and if 10 of the advanced states grow at high growth rates over 30 years, India growth story will see a dramatic change,” he said.
He said while radical economic reforms were necessary; these will not solve the problem of unemployment and poverty unless the country facilitates the ease of doing business.
He assured the states that DIPP will be a key partner in facilitating the process change that the states need to implement and the Department was willing to provide the best of consultants to ensure the success of their efforts.
DIPP is implementing the eBiz project which will create an investor centric hub -and-spoke based online single window model for providing clearances and filing compliances. This project will provide a single platform to avail business and investment related services, said a FICCI press release.
Today’s workshop was attended by representatives of industry’s departments of six states – Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
At present as many as 57 clearances fall within the domain of the states. The workshop reviewed each of these in a bid to identify and eliminate the bottlenecks and streamline processes.
DIPP, on its part, has sent an advisory to all Secretaries of Government of India and Chief Secretaries of the States and Union Territories to simplify and rationalize the regulatory environment.
In order to improve the regulatory business environment all departments/State Governments have been requested to ensure that all returns are filed online through a unified form; a checklist of required compliances is placed on Ministry’s/Department’s web portal; all registers required to be maintained by the business are replaced with a single electronic register; no inspection is undertaken without the approval of the Head of the Department; and for all non-risk, non-hazardous businesses a system of self-certification is introduced.
Meanwhile, Additional Secretary, Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Anil Swarup, informed the participants that by March 31, 2015, the digital platform, eBiz, will be fully operational and all applications with regard to registration and starting a business can be placed on the portal. The applicant can then track the status of the application and check whether the specified timelines are being adhered to with respect to the application.
The complete digitization of filing and tracking applications will revolutionize the ease of doing business, he said.
Swarup underlined that eBiz initiative, being piloted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, seeks to provide comprehensive Government-to-Business (G2B) services to business entities with transparency, speed, and certainty. (KNN/SD)
DIPP has cautioned the states that unless they resolve the difficulties in the way of doing business through business process engineering and online project clearances, India’s quest for achieving a growth rate of 7.5 per cent over a 30 year period will remain a pipedream.
Addressing a workshop on ‘Digitization of Clearances for Setting-up Projects’ organized by FICCI in association with Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Amitabh Kant, Secretary, DIPP, said India’s ranking in the Work Bank’s ease of doing business index could rise from 126 to 50, if the states adopt a new mindset and muster the administrative will to follow the good practices made available to them by DIPP in according project clearances.
“If the states grow, India grows and if 10 of the advanced states grow at high growth rates over 30 years, India growth story will see a dramatic change,” he said.
He said while radical economic reforms were necessary; these will not solve the problem of unemployment and poverty unless the country facilitates the ease of doing business.
He assured the states that DIPP will be a key partner in facilitating the process change that the states need to implement and the Department was willing to provide the best of consultants to ensure the success of their efforts.
DIPP is implementing the eBiz project which will create an investor centric hub -and-spoke based online single window model for providing clearances and filing compliances. This project will provide a single platform to avail business and investment related services, said a FICCI press release.
Today’s workshop was attended by representatives of industry’s departments of six states – Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Punjab and Andhra Pradesh.
At present as many as 57 clearances fall within the domain of the states. The workshop reviewed each of these in a bid to identify and eliminate the bottlenecks and streamline processes.
DIPP, on its part, has sent an advisory to all Secretaries of Government of India and Chief Secretaries of the States and Union Territories to simplify and rationalize the regulatory environment.
In order to improve the regulatory business environment all departments/State Governments have been requested to ensure that all returns are filed online through a unified form; a checklist of required compliances is placed on Ministry’s/Department’s web portal; all registers required to be maintained by the business are replaced with a single electronic register; no inspection is undertaken without the approval of the Head of the Department; and for all non-risk, non-hazardous businesses a system of self-certification is introduced.
Meanwhile, Additional Secretary, Project Monitoring Group, Cabinet Secretariat, Anil Swarup, informed the participants that by March 31, 2015, the digital platform, eBiz, will be fully operational and all applications with regard to registration and starting a business can be placed on the portal. The applicant can then track the status of the application and check whether the specified timelines are being adhered to with respect to the application.
The complete digitization of filing and tracking applications will revolutionize the ease of doing business, he said.
Swarup underlined that eBiz initiative, being piloted by the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, seeks to provide comprehensive Government-to-Business (G2B) services to business entities with transparency, speed, and certainty. (KNN/SD)
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