Facilitating investments
- Investor Facilitation Cell established to provide primary support for all investment queries and for providing handholding and liasioning services to investors
- Dedicated Japan Plus Cell established to facilitate and speed up investment proposals and augment economic ties between India and Japan
- Dedicated desk established to facilitate and speed up investment proposals and augment economic ties between India and Korea, China, Canada, the US
- E-Biz: A single-window online portal, where any investor looking to start a new business or establishing a new industrial unit, can avail core services needed to obtain necessary clearances, licenses, complete mandatory tax registrations and regulatory filing that are required to operate the business/industrial unit
- Checklist with specific time-lines has been developed for processing all application filed by foreign investors in cases relating to Retail/ NRI/ Export oriented units
- Investments in LLP opened up to foreign investors in specific sectors.
Simplification in administration of labor laws
- Shram Suvidha — Multiplicity of labor laws and the difficulty in their compliance had always been cited as an impediment to industrial development. In order to redress the same, Government launched an online portal Shram Suvidha, which is expected to facilitate:
- Ease of reporting at one place for various labor laws
- Consolidated information of labor inspection and its enforcement
- Allotment of Labour Identification Number (LIN) to units to facilitate online registration and filing of returns
- Real time registration with Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC) and Employee Provident Fund Organisation (EPFO)
Simplifying operation of business in India
- Curbing the need of Consent to Establish/No Objection Certificate (NOC) letter for new electricity connections.
- Online application and monitoring for environmental and forest clearances.
- Simplification in obtaining industrial licenses:
- Simplified forms for obtaining industrial licence and Industrial Entrepreneurs Memorandum (IEM)
- Granting security clearance on Industrial License applications within 12 weeks by Ministry of Home Affairs
- Dual use items (defence and civilian items) unless classified as defence items, will not require industrial licenses
- Initial validity period of industrial licenses has been increased to three years 42-24.2 48.3-47.8 11.4-42.9 11.4-132.3 11.4-132.3s0-89.4-11.4-132.3zm-317.5 213.5V175.2l142.7 81.2-142.7 81.2z"/> Subscribe on YouTube