Ease of doing business: Swift action ordered for pending 28 services, says minister MB PatilThe minister, who chaired a meeting on EoDB and the Single Window Committees, underscored the government's determination to outpace neighbo...
To bring ease of business bills, Centre nudges state govts to revamp laws, drive reformsThe Centre is preparing new rights-based bills to boost ease of doing business. These will be implemented by state governments within the y...
Union Budget 2025: Govt committed to ensuring regulations keep pace with global technological advancements, says SitharamanFinance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech, reaffirms the Union government’s commitment to improving the ease of doing busin...
Data centre companies seek clarity on dark fibre for captive networksData centre industry calls for clarification on dark fibre regulations for captive networks to enhance ease of doing business. India's mark...
Karnataka emerges at top in Ease of Doing Business rankings, along with six statesLast year, after 100% implementation of 187 reforms as suggested by the DPIIT, Karnataka faced a drastic fall in the state’s ranking from 8...
View: The need to cast doubt on global ranking systems like 'Ease of Doing Business'The investigation into the data irregularities of Doing Business (DB) 2018 and 2020 reports by law firm WilmerHale points to a lack of 'con...
View: India's new rules for drones a welcome moveOverall, the new rules put forth promising foundational ground for the drone industry. Institutionalising RIA, addressing privacy concerns ...
Making business easy: A template to ramp-up state capacityAfter the economy dipped as a result of stringent lockdowns, both the central and state governments in their deliberations to kickstart and...
Benefits of PLI Scheme can be undone by lack of Ease of Doing BusinessThe PLI Scheme can make a difference to electronic manufacturing in India, but states have to get their act together.
Kerala granted Rs 2,373 crore additional borrowing limitThe latest development took the total additional borrowing granted to the states on account of EoDB reforms to Rs 23,149 crore so far, the ...
Andhra Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh get additional borrowing limit of Rs 7,376 croreWhile UP has been permitted to borrow Rs 4,851 crore on account of One Nation One Ration Card System (ONORCS) reforms under the PDS, AP wil...
How Uttar Pradesh made the big jump to number 2 in EoDB rankingsNeena Sharma, CEO of Invest UP said out of 18,120 grievances received from entrepreneurs on the Nivesh Mitra portal, 98 per cent of them ha...
Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot to monitor ease of doing business in the stateIn a press statement, Rajasthan government chief secretary D B Gupta said that, from now on, chief minister Ashok Gehlot would chair meetin...
View: Economic Survey 2020 illustrates the importance of charting business landscape and process flowIndia has jumped from 142 in 2014 to 63 in 2019 on the index but further improvement needs a targeted approach.
How India can better ease of doing business scoreGovt's role as a buyer or as a seller to businesses also needs to be brought into the ambit of EoDB.
View: Here's tangible proof of minimum government, maximum governanceThis is the first govt that has taken EoDB seriously, according to the World Bank. When Modi set a target to reach rank 50 from 142, everyo...
Why Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh, MP & Odisha stand out in the Ease of Doing Business rankingThe ease of business rankings demonstrate that some of the older and much industrialised states seem to be surviving only on their past cre...