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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

Andhra Pradesh, Telengana set to top the charts for ease of doing business

Second edition of DIPPs state rankings expected to be released later in the day

Entering top 50 in ease of doing business the only goal for India, but no deadline: Sitharaman

Disappointed but not discouraged by India's poor showing in latest Doing Business Report 2017 by the World Bank says commerce minister

India moves up by just one notch on World Bank's 'ease of doing business' index

Latest rankings put in jeopardy PM's plan to push the country among the top 50 nations by 2018

New Zealand tops World Bank survey as easiest place to do business

While Brunei sees the biggest improvement, Macedonia enters the top 10

Sitharaman: 12 states on track to improve ease of doing biz

Uttarakhand, Rajasthan lead the reforms implementation charts