Marchingahead towards further promoting the ease of doing business by eliminating thered tape, the Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh-led Punjab Government hassuccessfully scrapped 1,498 mandatory compliances so far while more reductionin compulsory formalities for trade and industry in the state is in the offing.
TheChief Secretary, Ms Vini Mahajan, disclosed this while chairing a meeting toreview the status of compliance reduction by various departments, here.
Shedirected all the departments concerned to complete the process of furtherreducing the compliances by the end of this month.
MsMahajan said the compliances falling under two categories -- government tobusiness (G2B) and government to citizen (G2C) – were being reduced to save thecost and time of users.
Sheasked all the administrative secretaries to relook and identify more suchcompliances, where simplification is required, considering the fact that itwill ultimately benefit the society at large.
“Thegovernment is committed to make Punjab the most preferred investmentdestination by providing a conducive environment for the trade and industrybesides promoting the ease of doing business,” asserted the Chief Secretary InvestPunjab is a nodal agency for coordinating with all the departments concernedfor the timely implementation of G2B compliances while Governance Reforms andGrievances department is the nodal agency for G2C compliances.
Presentingthe status of G2B compliances, Invest Punjab CEO, Rajat Agarwal, apprised the ChiefSecretary that 16 departments have identified, proposed and implemented 628business compliances under phase 1 and 2. The objective of this exercise is tomake the process of meeting compliances less burdensome by its implementationin the shape of reducing documents, making services online, increasingvalidity, and amending rules.
DirectorGovernance Reforms and Grievances, Parminderpal Singh, presented the status ofG2C compliances, while apprising that 28 departments have identified, proposedand implemented 870 compliances in first two phases.
AdditionalChief Secretary Home Anurag Agarwal, Principal Secretaries Hussan Lal(Industries and Commerce), Sarvjit Singh (Housing and Urban Development), RajiP Shrivastava (Social Justice, Empowerment and Minorities), Anurag Verma(Science Technology and Environment), K Siva Prasad (Transport), JaspreetTalwar (Water Supply and Sanitation), Secretaries Krishan Kumar (SchoolEducation), Rahul Tiwari (Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs), KumarRahul (Health and Family Welfare) and other officials also attended themeeting.