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India's ranking may improve significantly in ease of business index: DIPP

DIPP Secretary Ramesh Abhishek expected the country's ranking to improve on the back of reforms initiated by the government

Ease of Doing Business: Odisha to post policies, seek feedback online

For effective implementation of Ease of Doing Business, the Odisha government will post all the draft policies, statutes and regulations and seek feedback online.It is part of the state's endeavour to improve the business eco-system of the state to facilitate the investors for setting up and running their business.The state government has mandated that the draft policies, statutes and regulations impacting the investors will be posted online by the respective department in their websites to seek feedback of stakeholders and public comments."The respective departments will subsequently make arrangements to publish the comment and feedback received online on the draft polices, regulations and statutes and how they are addressed in the final version", said an official source.The Odisha government is taking several unique measures to provide congenial atmosphere to woo the investors.In a first, the state government is also coming up with a single portal that will cater to the whole gamut .

GST to facilitate ease of doing business: European Union

The European Union give thumbs up to India's Goods and Services Tax

Tamil Nadu to introduce Bill for ease of doing business

State claims of the 50 projects signed in 2015, 43 under various stages of implementation

It's now easier to do business in India

The government has liberalised its foreign direct investment policy in order to attract investors

Ease of doing business: It takes 118 days to set up biz in India, says NITI

Panagariya says huge gap between perception of enterprises and action taken by state governments

Ease of business: Odisha to develop single portal for investor interface

To go for third-party assessment of reforms for ease of doing business

World Bank ranking: Govt banks on trade infra reforms

---Drop the pointer table sent with this---With two months before a World Bank team again visits India to assess the 'Ease of Doing Business', the government is banking on reforms in trade infrastructure to jump into a higher ranking this year.India had managed to move up by only one rank, to 130th, last year as part of the Doing Business Report 2017. India's position on seven out of 10 parameters also went down compared to the previous year.On 'trading across borders', which takes into account the entire export-import infrastructure, India had gone up by a single spot to 143rd last year.Now, the government is hoping to better its score significantly, with changes such as the Import Data Processing and Monitoring System (IDPMS) becoming active since then, a senior official said on condition of anonymity. Over the past year, single-window clearance for traders at major ports was implemented, apart from logistics data tracking at the country's largest port, JNPT in Navi Mumbai.The ...

Over 7,000 steps taken to improve ease of doing biz: Nirmala Sitharaman

She adds the ministry is working with all states to improve the business climate further

India needs to address IPR, tax issues for ease of doing biz: US diplomat

Carlson said GST, bankruptcy law will reduce long-standing challenges to doing business

Easier to do business now, but India still among the worst performers

India improved its ease of doing business ranking last year-moving up from 131 to 130

Ease of doing business: Labour reforms remain just an intention

A look at ground realities as states are unwilling to deal with the political hot potato

Don't lose sight of the big picture

The fretting over missed opportunities to improve India's ease of doing business ranking needs to be supported with larger efforts to transform the economy into a premier investment hub

Amit Tandon: The message in India's static ranking

How open is India for business? Not very, concludes the World Bank, in its recent Ease of Doing Business report

Tamil Nadu in talks with Centre on ease of doing business index, says industry secretary

He says that weightage should have been given to other aspects such as feedback from the industry

Ease of doing business ranking may not be reflecting ground reality

States with higher ranking are found to lag others in terms of converting project proposals into actual investments

PM Modi's real task for easing business in India begins now

If PM Modi wants to achieve his government's aim of getting India into the top 50 in the next few years, he might have to aim and jump even higher

Are BJP-ruled states making India more attractive to businesses?

Two states with governments supportive of the BJP - the newly born Telangana and Andhra Pradesh - top the rankings.

Andhra Pradesh, Telangana best places to do business in India

New ease of doing business index aimed at implementing reforms in agricultural marketing finds Maharashtra, Gujarat ahead of others

Despite high conversion rate, launching a new venture is hard in Maharashtra

State govt also faces challenge of dispersal of investment especially in less developed districts