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Union is working on setting up a System!   The Central Government is working on setting up a Single Window System for clearances and approvals of industry in the country. Despite the presence of several IT platforms for investing in India such as in departments of the Government of India and State Single Window Clearances, investors need to visit multiple platforms to gather information and obtain clearances from different stakeholders.   To address this, the creation of a centralized Investment Clearance Cell which would provide end-to-end facilitation support, including pre-investment advisory, information related to land banks; and facilitating clearances at Central and State level was proposed and the same is also a Budget Announcement 2020-21. The cell is being planned as a One-stop digital platform to obtain all requisite central and state clearances /approvals required to start business operations in India. The Investment Clearance Cell will be a National portal t...

  MHA asks States to allow..!                 MHA asks States to allow unhindered movement of persons and goods and services during Unlock-3! The Centre has asked the States that there should be no restrictions imposed on inter-State and intra-State movement of persons and goods and services during the present prevailing Unlock-3 guidelines. In a communication to Chief Secretaries of all States today, the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has stated that it has been reported that local level restrictions on movement are being imposed by various districts/States.  Such restrictions are creating problems in inter-State movement of goods and services and are impacting the supply chain, resulting in disruption of economic activities and employment, besides affecting supply of goods and services.   The MHA has said such restrictions at local level imposed by District Administrations or by States, amount to violation of the guideline...

Single window system to be set up soon!  The Government is soon going to set up a single window system for clearances and approvals of industry in the country. Talking to the sovereign wealth funds, the foreign pension funds and others on ease of doing business and investments in infrastructure sector in India, Commerce and Industry Minister Shri Piyush Goyal said that this would be a genuine single window and all the concerned State Governments and Central Ministries are being taken on board for the system.   The Minister also said that the Government is working on creating a land bank, for which six States have already given their consent.   He said that the potential investors would then be able to locate and identify the land banks from their distant offices and finalise the location of industries, without frequently visiting the offices of land owning agencies. On the issue of further easing and speeding up the process of approvals for industry and investments, t...