UP's star performance in ease of doing biz rankings raises questions

UP's star performance raises questions

The Centre’s Business Reform Action Plan (BRAP) is a constructive exercise that began in 2015 and ranks states and Union Territories on the ease of doing business. The rankings in the previous editions that have been published so far combined specified metrics of business process reform (whether a state had single-window clearance, for example) with user feedback and mostly reflected general perceptions with minor surprises. The 2019 edition, however, appears to have surpassed expectations with Uttar Pradesh (UP) dramatically zooming 10 points up the rankings to second place even as Gujarat slipped five places to number 10, Haryana 13 places