Govt reduced over 25,000 compliances to help ease of doing Business

According to a top government official, over 25,000 compliances have been lowered by Union ministries, states, and UTs so far to increase the comfort of living and conducting business.

During the final phase of an initiative that finished on August 15 this year, these compliances were lowered.

Now, the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT), an arm of the commerce and industry ministry, has relaunched the campaign to identify and alleviate the constraints faced by enterprises and the general public.

On December 22, “the DPIIT will hold a National Workshop on the Next Phase of Reforms for Reducing Compliance Burden” to help people live and do business more easily. Participants come from a variety of federal ministries as well as states and union territories (UTs).

“More than 25,000 compliances were decreased in the final phase, which finished on August 15, 2021… However, the journey is not yet over; there are still compliance obligations to be met “At the workshop’s launch, DPIIT Secretary Anurag Jain noted.

Today, three groups will discuss three topics and submit a report to the cabinet secretary. Effective grievance resolution, national single sign-on for efficient delivery of citizen services, and tearing down silos and improving synergies amongst government departments are among the themes, he noted.

“How do we make people happy by reducing grievances? Can we address it compassionately and express why it is not feasible if the issues cannot be resolved or accepted…, “Jain explained.

Integration between central ministries/departments and state single window systems, as well as a single business ID, would be the emphasis of the session on breaking down silos.

Session on single sign-on would deal with deliberations on onboarding all citizen services by central and state government services under one roof — National Citizen-Centric Portal and the creation of a ‘National Digital Profile‘ for all citizens that would be used to pre-fill government forms and also as a tool to citizen benefit welfare discovery.

The third session on grievance redressal would focus on topics like usage of next-generation technology in effective grievance redressal, and accountability-based mechanisms for enhanced effectiveness of redressal quality.