How UP jumped 10 spots to second in ‘ease of doing business’


LUCK: In a big boost for the Uttar Pradesh The government’s efforts to build an investor-friendly environment in the state ranked second in the 2018-19 State Business Reform National Action Plan, the annual ‘Ease of Doing Business’ ranking released on Saturday.
The state jumped 10 spots from the 2017-18 ranking, when it ranked 12th. Andhra Pradesh kept his first position while Telangana slipped from second to third position. Additional Chief Secretary (Industrial Development) Alok Kumar said that as part of this year’s parameters, UP implemented 186 of the 187 reforms suggested by the Center.
“As the final evaluation of this year’s ranking is based on ‘user feedback’, feedback received from entrepreneurs on the state one-stop portal ‘Nivesh Mitra’ played a critical role in UP leaving behind to leading states like Gujarat, Telangana, Maharashtra and Rajasthan, ”he said.
CM Accreditation Yogi Adityanath For the improvement in the state’s ranking, Industry Minister Satish Mahana said: “The CM has been emphasizing the need for transparency, adoption of best practices and interactive business-to-government procedures through the use of technology.”
The industries department said that in the past two years, the Nivesh Mitra portal received 2,29,936 requests this year for certificates of no objection and of that, 94% of requests were removed.
Currently, 146 services in 20 departments are provided through the portal. An official said the portal’s “user feedback” module had received 62,286 comments from investors as of July, of which about 73% of users rated the services “satisfactory”.
In May, Chief Secretary RK Tiwari had said that to improve the state’s overall performance on the ease of doing business rankings, the state would assess each district on how efficiently they could handle issues raised on the Nivesh portal. Miter.
The rankings were released in June in which Unnao came first. Services that have been included in the reforms include labor regulation, access to information and transparency, land administration, building permit, trade disputes, inspection enablers, etc.
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