A day after India’s ranking in the World Bank’s ease of doing business jumped 12 steps to 130th position, up from 142nd rank last year, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley has said that the improvement in ranking does not fully reflect the reforms initiated and the position will improve further next year. He said that a large number of steps which we have already taken are going to be reflected in the rankings next year. These rankings are only up to June 1 and some of those steps, whose impact is not seen on the ground, as yet have not been factored into this. But I am sure in the years our ranking will certainly improve.
Jaitley said that “I am grateful that the World Bank has recognised that India is now becoming an easier place to do business... I believe that this 12 point movement does not reflect the full pace of reforms that we have done.” He also said he believed that India still has a long way to go and it is 'work in progress' on improving environment for doing business in the country.
The finance minister also pointed that in recent days the government has taken a number of steps to further improve the ranking and is trying to make the Income Tax Act much simpler and in this regard have announced a Committee which will recast some of these provisions. The government has also brought in another ordinance two days ago for establishing a commercial court in each High Court of the country.
Earlier DIPP Secretary Amitabh Kant too had said that though we had done a 12 points jump but Prime Minister’s target is that India must become the easiest and the simplest place to do business. This would require a lot of sustained work over a long period of time and we are determined to do this.
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