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Two more States successfully implement reforms, get additional borrowing permission of ₹ 7,376 crore

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..... Two more States successfully implement reforms, get additional borrowing permission of ₹ 7,376 crore - News and Press Release Dated:- 3-10-2020 - News - Ministry of Finance has granted additional borrowing permission to two more States, Uttar Pradesh Andhra Pradesh for successfully undertaking reforms in the Public Distribution System (PDS) and Ease of Doing Business. This will make a .....

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..... n additional amount of ₹ 7,376 crore available to these States. Uttar Pradesh has become the 6 th State to complete the reform process in PDS to implement One Nation One Ration Card System. This has made the State eligible to raise an amount of ₹ 4,851 crorethrough Open Market Borrowings (OMBs). This amount will help the State in mobilizing additional financial resources r .....

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..... equired to fight COVID-19. One Nation One Ration Card System ensures availability of ration to beneficiaries under the National Food Security Act (NFSA) and other welfare schemes, especially to the migrant workers and their families, at any Fair Price Shop (FPS) across the country. It alsoenables better targeting of beneficiaries, elimination of bogus/ duplicate/ineligible card holders. Thu .....

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..... s,One Nation One Ration Card enhances welfare and reduces leakage. To ensure seamless inter-state portability of a ration card, Aadhar seeding of all ration cards as well as biometric authentication of beneficiaries through automation of all Fair Price Shops (FPSs) with installation of electronic point of sale (e-PoS) devices are essential. Department of Food and Public Distribution is the .....

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..... nodal Ministry to assess reform claims of the States and recommend release of additional borrowing limit of 0.25 percent of GSDP. The Department of Food and Public Distribution has confirmed that the States of Uttar Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Goa, Karnataka and Tripura have successfully carried out aforesaid reforms in PDS and implemented One Nation One Ration Card System A .....

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..... ndhra Pradesh has became the 1 st State in the country to successfully undertake Ease of Doing Business reforms and has thus become eligible to raise an additional amount of ₹ 2,525 crore through Open Market Borrowings.Earlier Andhra Pradesh had also completed PDS reforms to enable One Nation One Ration Card System. Ease of Doing Business is an important indicator of a .....

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..... n investment friendly business climate in the country. Improvement in the ease of doing business will enable faster future growth of the state economy. Therefore, in order to incentivize implementation of district level and licensing reforms for ease of doing business, an additional borrowing facility of 0.25 per cent of GSDP has been allowed to States on the recommendation of the Department for P .....

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..... romotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT). The reform envisagesundertaking all of the following actions by the State Governments: The State will complete the first assessment of District Level Business Reform Action Plan as intimated by DPIIT. The State will eliminate the requirements of renewal of certificates/ approvals/ licences obtained by businesses for various act .....

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..... ivities from the authorities at the State level as per list circulated by DPIIT. Collection of reasonable fees with automatic non-discretionary deemed renewal will also be permissible as reform if done in a transparent online, non-discretionary automatic manner. The State will implement computerized central random inspection system under the Acts as per list circulated by DPIIT wherein al .....

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..... location of inspectors is done centrally, the same inspector is not assigned to the same unit in subsequent years, prior inspection notice is provided to the business owner, and inspection report is uploaded within 48 hours of inspection. In view of the unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic, the Central Government had in May, 2020 allowed additional borrowing limit of up to 2 percent of Gross .....

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..... State Domestic Product (GSDP) to the States for the year 2020-21. This made an amount up to ₹ 4,27,302 crore available to the States. One percent of this is subject to implementation of following four specific State level reforms, where weightage of each reform is 0.25 percent of GSDP: - Implementation of One Nation One Ration Card System; Ease of doing business refor .....

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..... m; Urban Local body/ utility reforms; and Power Sector reforms - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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