Aiming to improve its ratings in ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and be among the top three states, Odisha has targeted to implement all reforms listed under ‘Business Reforms Action Plan 2017’ by the end of July.
The action plan has 405 points relating to 18 administrative departments. So far, the government departments have ensured compliance with 173 action points. Twelve action points are found not to be applicable. The balance 235 points are concerned with the digitisation of 47 services.
Among the services that would be uploaded online are registration of VAT, CST, professional tax, entry tax and entertainment tax,