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More than 25,000 compliances reduced by centre so far in its bid to promote Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business

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..... More than 25,000 compliances reduced by centre so far in its bid to promote Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business - News and Press Release Dated:- 22-12-2021 - News - More than 25,000 compliances reduced by centre so far in its bid to promote Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business Focus on simplicity of processes and timely delivery of services- Shri Piyush Goyal There is a need to .....

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..... develop indigenous solutions to local problems There is an urgent need to decriminalize Legal Metrology Promote self- attestation, self- certification and self- regulation Our compliance systems must be based on trusting the citizens The Minister of Commerce and Industry, Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and Textiles, Shri Piyush Goyal today urged political leadership, .....

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..... bureaucracy and industry leadership to focus their initiatives to reduce compliance burden, on principles of simplicity and timely delivery of services. He was addressing the valedictory session of the National Workshop on the next phase of reforms to reduce Compliance Burden in New Delhi today. It may be noted that more than 25,000 compliances have been reduced in the previous exercise imple .....

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..... mented by the centre to reduce compliance burden and to promote Ease of Living and Ease of Doing Business. Touching upon the infinite possibilities of technology, Shri Goyal said that technology must aid and abet initiatives to promote the Ease of Living and Ease of doing business and should not further complicate the system of compliances. He spoke of the need to develop indigenous solutions t .....

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..... o problems that India faced. The Minister asked policy makers to consider the wide disparity in income, literacy level and the gaps in infrastructure, especially connectivity, while planning the delivery of services, especially if technology is involved. Speaking of the need to make monitoring mechanisms more robust, Shri Goyal said that monitoring of policies and programs must not become mo .....

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..... re cumbersome than the underlying problem that the initiatives were seeking to solve. Shri Goyal opined that feedback from all stakeholders, especially users, had to be taken into account while designing compliance requirements and that ground realities must always be taken into consideration. He urged policymakers to use crowdsourcing to find out details of the compliances that were proving to .....

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..... be cumbersome and work on rationalizing them. He spoke of the need to combine various services like the Digi locker and National Single Window System so that repetitive processes are rationalized, gaps are bridged and redundancies are eliminated when it comes to applying for approvals and permissions. He called for the creation of a single identification number for businesses and individuals b .....

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..... y merging the several identification numbers that exist presently, such as Adhaar, PAN, TAN etc so that delivery of services becomes smoother and faster. Speaking of the need to decriminalize Legal Metrology, the Minister urged industry participants to keep seeking reforms and improvements in processes and procedures. He also called for promotion of self- attestation, self- certification and se .....

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..... lf- regulation. He added that it is high time that compliance systems were built on trusting the integrity of the citizens. Calling for big ticket reforms, the Minister said that the new structures must not shackle people. Underscoring the need to address information asymmetry among stakeholders, Shri Goyal called for, consolidation of the gains made so far in reducing compliance burden. T .....

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..... he day-long Workshop was divided into three parallel breakout sessions. The theme of the first was Breaking Silos and Enhancing Synergies among Government Departments . The second was based on the theme of National Single Sign-on for Efficient Delivery of Citizen Services while the third Breakout Session is themed Effective Grievance Redressal . Speaking at the inauguration of the Workshop, .....

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..... Shri Anurag Jain, Secretary, Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said that grievance redressal mechanisms must be humane and sensitive. He opined that in cases where grievances cannot be fully resolved due to rules and procedural aspects, the same must be conveyed to the complainant sensitively. Government departments could handle the genuine grievances with a human fa .....

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..... ce, he added. The Workshop witnessed wide participation from across Central Ministries and States/UTs. The ideas that took shape during the deliberations at the conference were presented to Shri Piyush Goyal and Cabinet Secretary, Shri Rajiv Gauba. - News - Press release - PIB Tax Management India - taxmanagementindia - taxmanagement - taxmanagementindia.com - TMI - TaxTMI - TMITax .....

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