India to be among the top 30 countries in ease of doing business: Jayant Sinha

03 Aug 2015 Evaluate

Minister of State for Finance Jayant Sinha has said that India is aiming to be among the top 30 countries in the world in terms of ease of doing business, from its current 142nd position among 189 nations in World Bank’s Ease of Doing Business 2015 report.

Sinha said that the government is taking various initiatives, including e-biz portal, Goods and Services Tax, mobile platform for setting up business, and is working with states to improve ease of doing business. He also highlighted that India is already on a growth path and should aim to become a $4-5 trillion economy in near future from the current $2 trillion economy.

Recently, a team from the World Bank Group had visited India to collect data and information for Doing Business Report, 2016. The two member mission of World Bank had reviewed metrics relating to ease of doing business in India. Currently at 142nd place India with the exception of two parameters (Getting credit and Protecting minority investors), does not feature in the top 100 in the remaining parameters. Instead for metrics such as ‘dealing with construction permits’ and ‘enforcing contracts’ parameters, India ranks in the bottom 10 economies as per the ranking.

Government on its part highlighted measures including removal of minimum paid-up capital requirement for companies, only three documents required for exports and imports, removal of requirement of filing declaration of commencement for companies among others.

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